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Who’s on Your 2016 Web Development Thank You List?
- joeyspn 10y ago1st in my list is React Boilerplate... https://github.com/mxstbr/react-boilerplate https://github.com/mxstbr/react-boilerplate
- tomelders 10y agoPretty good, but I wish they'd left in a way to choose between styled components and css modules.
- ng12 10y agoDo you have a strong preference? I've been using CSS Modules but I'm constantly wondering if Styled Components is better -- it seems like less work to add styles, at least.
- tomelders 10y agoNo strong preference, I like both. But styled-components beed to ve road tested in a large project before we can appraise wether they're ready for a production ready boilerplate.
- CiPHPerCoder 10y agoFar too many to list here. A small sample: - https://github.com/mholt/caddy https://github.com/mholt/caddy Caddy is an HTTP/2 webserver written in Go that integrates with ACME and serves websites of TLS by default. It powers https://paragonie.com https://paragonie.com and manages our HTTPS certificates automatically. - https://github.com/twigphp/Twig https://github.com/twigphp/Twig Twig is one of the sane templating languages for PHP projects that I use extensively. - https://github.com/composer/composer https://github.com/composer/composer Composer revolutionized PHP development. A lot of the "PHP sucks" arguments focus on things that haven't been true about the language since 5.4 (or earlier), but one thing that truly did suck was dependency management (before composer came around). Dependency management also sucks in other languages (and still sucks in those). I suspect that's why few used that as a criticism of PHP. - https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium Libsodium: modern cryptography that you can likely find bindings for in your favorite programming language.
- TheOneTrueKyle 10y ago+1 for twig when using PHP. Also, if working in Wordpress, the combination of ACF and Timber (twig for Wordpress) will get rid of a lot of frustrations.
- mamadrood 10y agoI've been using PHP for most of my life, and used various template engine and it always end up with one question : what is the real purpose of a template engine in PHP instead of just using PHP ? When I see the examples in twig homepage it just looks like they tried to make PHP examples verbose for the sake of it. I don't really mind them, but I find it extremely boring to have to register in the template engine every function that you will end up using somewhere else in your code and eventually have a language with less feature than plain old PHP and an other layer of cache. So which use cases make you need Twig, for instance ?
- TheOneTrueKyle 10y agoWorking with designers who just want to make a few changes. All that PHP can be intimidating, but basic templating is doable.
- CiPHPerCoder 10y agoIf you have a designer who's worked with templating engines in other languages (e.g. Django/Python projects), they already know what they're doing. It also makes it easier to separate your presentation logic from your business logic. For example: https://github.com/paragonie/airship/blob/master/src/Cabin/Bridge/Lens/cargo/bridge_perms_context.twig https://github.com/paragonie/airship/blob/master/src/Cabin/B... This uses macros and other fun things. Doing that in PHP would get messy. https://github.com/paragonie/airship/blob/master/src/Cabin/Bridge/Lens/macros/permtable.twig https://github.com/paragonie/airship/blob/master/src/Cabin/B...
- mamadrood 10y agoOkay, I've never worked with a designer that would touch code, so there is that. Macros seem a bit redundant with partial views in my opinion, except they take fixed parameters, but this is a interesting concept.
- BjoernKW 10y agoSpring Framework and its numerous companion libraries: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoSandstorm.io - https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/ https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/ I do all my group collaboration with it, and am no longer subject to Google's whims about my data. Sandstorm predates 2016, but has really accomplished a lot in 2016.
- neovive 10y agoSandstorm looks very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
- fimdomeio 10y agoVue.js for being elegant.
- hluska 10y agoI have way too many to list, so I figure that I'll list one old school one that I have been using for years and one that I only started using in 2016. This year, I made my first foray into building non-trivial web applications with Angular. Despite (or perhaps because of) that, I was quickly filled with a brand new respect for good old jQuery. I have yet to find such a simple, maintainable, readable way to parse complicated DOMs. https://github.com/jquery/jquery https://github.com/jquery/jquery I first started working with the Slim Framework in March. Over those nine months, it has become an absolutely indispensable tool for me. https://github.com/slimphp/Slim https://github.com/slimphp/Slim
- rietta 10y agoThe list is massive. But the short list is Ruby and the entire Ruby on Rails ecosystem, PostgreSQL, Linux, and bash. Upon these rocks I earn most of my living. And none of this would be possible without the GNU Compiler Collection.
- tomelders 10y agoRedux https://github.com/reactjs/redux https://github.com/reactjs/redux I love it. To the point that I think it's application architecture to rule all architectures. I dream of a brand new Unix based OS that adopts this architecture as it's standard over MVC.
- Bahamut 10y agoI'm increasingly convinced that redux is the wrong way to manage most state. I see the pattern get abused greatly for state that should be more localized.
- tomelders 10y agoIm not sure I agree (or maybe I dont understand what you're saying). For me, all state, no matter how trivial, should be on the store. For UI state that can seem excessive, but its possible to use middleware and decorators to simplify that. Local state in my experience means bugs.
- Bahamut 10y agoThe problem is when different views require the same concept of some state but they don't really want it global to the application to bleed into other views. A redux-like pattern makes it very simple to put that state into a store, but then you're stuck reseting it every time you switch views, which can make it very easy to introduce timing bugs and just increases the surface area where bugs can introduce since more code gets written for logic that ultimately is the wrong abstraction for these situations. I suspected this would be the case when first reading about redux, and dealing with it at practice in work, the consequences can be quite bad. Not to say that some concept of global application state is bad - one always has it. It is incorrectly making it global when you really want an instance of it for a particular view. Redux itself isn't bad as it helps manage an important situation, but it is too much of a facilitator of this antipattern when it comes to state that absolutely should not bleed across views.
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- zitterbewegung 10y agoIf you are grateful for some open source projects you should try to contribute to them next year as a new years resolution either by donating your time or money to them.
- neovive 10y agoI completely agree. I try to support the open source projects I depend on via financial contributions (purchasing books/training/services offered by the organizations or Patreon). I also submit pull requests for documentation updates and answer questions in forums. One of my goals for 2017 is to contribute some source code pull requests.
- CiPHPerCoder 10y agoDon't just do it for them, do it for yourself too. :)
- snowpanda 10y agoNetbeans
- ggregoire 10y agoVSCode, React, Create-React-App, Flow, GraphQL. In short, thanks to Microsoft and Facebook. I would add Chrome, Node.js, Babel, Webpack, Knex, MySQL.
- bandrami 10y agoI feel like the web has been getting significantly worse for about 5 to 6 years now (or, heck, 20 years). I have more of a blame list, personally.
- bandrami 10y agoIt's curious to me how unpopular this sentiment is here. Are there actually people who think the Web provides a better user experience in 2016 than it did in 2006? I'm frankly baffled at that and would love to hear from somebody who feels that way.
- ng12 10y agoPeople have always made bad, unusable websites. If we wanted to prevent them from doing that we should have never moved away from Gopher. I write SPAs for a living and a lot of the technologies mentioned in this thread are a godsend. Whenever somebody expresses the above sentiment I feel it's only because they never had to maintain a complicated web app.
- bandrami 10y agothey never had to maintain a complicated web app Correct: we used to write websites that were as simple as it was feasible for them to be, with as few client-side requirements as possible. It's the whole idea that "complicated web apps" are good things that I dislike.
- ng12 10y agoDo you think Facebook could exist if we eschewed building complicated things on the web? The alternative is not building a simpler website, it's building desktop applications. Just because some developers choose the wrong tools for the job doesn't mean the tools aren't necessary.
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- dmux 10y agoAndreas Rumpf for http://nim-lang.org http://nim-lang.org and Dominik Picheta for his recent Nim book.
- dom96 10y agoDominik Picheta here. Thank you for making my day :)
- petecooper 10y agoTextpattern CMS: http://textpattern.com http://textpattern.com The jump from 4.5.x to 4.6.x included a huge number of commits from a small core of people, and the future looks bright. My 'thank you' is in the form of written thanks to the development team and contributors, and I'm aiming to increase my regular commitments to helping with docs and other non-dev tasks to half a day per week in 2017.
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- FloatingGhost 10y agoCan I have a web dev "no thank you" list? Node JS would be on it
- rsync 10y agoborg backup.[1] It's a remote backup tool that solved all the problems. It's basically duplicity[2] but without the unfortunate design fault of having to re-upload all your data every few months. Our[3] customers love it and we see new deployments of it (even among existing customers) every single day. [1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ [2] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ [3] http://www.rsync.net/products/attic.html http://www.rsync.net/products/attic.html
- ams6110 10y agoWow. I've been using duplicity and dealing with that same issue. Thank you. I sometimes tell myself I should spend less time browsing HN comments but then I find little nuggets like this that really make it worthwhile.
- iagooar 10y agoJosé Valim and Chris McCord, for their HUGE work on Elixir and Phoenix!
- neovive 10y agoI can't believe I excluded VS Code from my list--and I wrote the article yesterday. It really shows how much we take for granted when it comes to open source. VS Code became my primary code/Markdown editor in 2016. It improves steadily each month [1] and already has a great extension ecosystem and community. It also spurred my switch to Markdown for all note-taking due to its powerful integrated Markdown features. Thank you to the VS Code team and Microsoft for sponsoring the project. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/updates https://code.visualstudio.com/updates
- fenomas 10y agoIf I'm picking just one it would be webpack. It might not be sexy but it wrangles so much complexity out of my projects - files for disparate technologies (JS, CSS, Vue.js templates, CSV, whatever) can all declare dependencies against one another, and somehow each one gets parsed and bundled and minimized the way it needs to be. It's pretty glorious. https://webpack.github.io/ https://webpack.github.io/
- potomak 10y agoDefinitely Matteo Centenaro[0] and Andrea Dal Ponte[1] for their incredible contributions to Tomatoes[2], and our supporters[3] who boosted our morale and made the project sustainable. [0] https://twitter.com/bugant https://twitter.com/bugant [1] https://twitter.com/dalpo https://twitter.com/dalpo [2] http://www.tomato.es http://www.tomato.es [3] https://backerpass.com/tomatoes https://backerpass.com/tomatoes
- superplussed 10y agoMy vote goes to Michel Weststrate for his amazing work with MobX [1]. I was really unhappy with all of the client-side data management options (Flux, redux, et al) until this came along. Many thanks Michel for making my day to day frontend life much more enjoyable! [1] https://mobxjs.github.io/mobx/index.html https://mobxjs.github.io/mobx/index.html
- taternuts 10y agoI'm going to go with Preact [1]. I'm a 'full-stack' developer (primarily backend) who recently took my first frontend gig and my first real foray into this world has been with Preact and I really enjoy it. I don't feel as if I'm 'losing out' by not using React, since it has the same API, and have really come to believe in it's ethos as a project to keep the library size, and therefore the download + parse time, incredibly small but also providing performant functionality. The author is a great guy who's really responsive as well. [1] https://preactjs.com/ https://preactjs.com/
- shams93 10y agoThe developer of Vue.js even though I haven't finished by project just yet thanking him ahead of time for giving me an alternative to working with big company projects. Also the teams behind node and express.the team behind Mariadb for giving me an alternative to oracles MySQL. The Apache Prediction team as well so I can use machine learning without having to write everything from scratch with tensor flow.
- sytse 10y agoIt would be Yehuda Katz for participating in TC39 to improve javascript while also running a company (Skylight) and making a completely open source framework (Ember) and helping with two package managers (Cargo and Yarn). It is hard to believe it is a single person.
- adregan 10y agoThis year I decided to hunker down and use vim (specifically, neovim). It has been the best decision I have made. Using vim and thinking of the satellite of tools in my terminal as my IDE has made me a better programmer and I have a better appreciation for building on the foundation of other developers work (huge reduction in desire to invent everything myself). So I want to thank all of you who write articles, share tips and tricks about using vim and utility programs, and especially those of you who contribute to open source software. I've learned a great deal from you all.
- zuzuleinen 10y agoTodd McLeod for his amazing Golang course https://www.udemy.com/user/toddmcleod/ https://www.udemy.com/user/toddmcleod/
- blueside 10y agoLaravel and Vue, to all the people who have worked hard to contribute and make them better