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I agree that it serves almost the same purpose, but for a beginner, seeing all the layers, what they do, and choosing them piecemeal is a great way to learn qui
by projectramo 10y ago
I agree that it serves almost the same purpose, but for a beginner, seeing all the layers, what they do, and choosing them piecemeal is a great way to learn quickly before graduating to the yeoman ecosystem.
- blowski 10y agoYep - I get confused between Grunt, Gulp, Yeoman, Bower, Node, React, Angular, jQuery, TypeScript. How do these things fit together? Why would I choose one over another? As a predominantly backend developer, If I just want to have a 2016-style workflow for the frontend part of my site, it's really hard!
- underwater 10y agoI used React Starter Kit for a project and greatly regretted it. In the end I would have been better off taking the time to learn how the parts fit together myself. With the boilerplate I was locked into the questionable decisions and brittle implementation of the original author. Changing anything usually broke my app and because I had taken the starter kit shortcut I didn't have the understanding of how to fix it.
- projectramo 10y agoI think of the download button as optional. What I like about the site is the visualization. So, for instance, you know that Express is an alternative to Meteor, not a complement. And that Jade/Handlebars work with Express and are alternatives to each other. Just having that for all the combination of names is valuable. Basically, it helps you understand the taxonomy.
- dvcc 10y agoThere are a decent amount of yeoman generators that allow selections between the different layers. Plus I feel like beginners (certainly for me at least) generally struggle with this heavy boilerplate anyway.