BigJono

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by BigJono 4y ago
This thread is the biggest crock of shit. It's a blog post about React, he's obviously not saying "don't use literally any libraries whatsoever". The vast majority of libs that sit on top of React are completely use
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by BigJono 4y ago
> If I can trust what make_pizza does You can't, unless it's in a standard library or a core dependency used by millions of people. That's one of the reasons why functional code is generally easier to read. A lambda define
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by BigJono 4y ago
Good. Hybrid SSR for everything is the most overengineered bullshit fad I've seen in front end development. The sooner noobs stop cargo culting Next JS the better.
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by BigJono 4y ago
React already has a mechanism for this (Context). It's not the primary reason to use a state management library. Any discussion that doesn't revolve around a difference between the two is akin to suggesting re-implementing a stand
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by BigJono 4y ago
You have no idea what you're talking about. JSX is a line for line transform. It's literally the simplest implementation of templating that's even possible. The next step is just not having any sort of transform or build time
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by BigJono 4y ago
I lucked into my first job with a startup and never had to go through the job hunt as a junior candidate (other than through a few big company mass grad hire processes which were an absolute fucking joke, and thank god I didn't actuall
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by BigJono 4y ago
That "one link out of thousands" is the first page of the official docs for pretty much the only complex bit of getting started doing frontend. If people are getting stuck because they're trying to get into something by follo
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by BigJono 4y ago
Not really, unless "done right" is for like a 2000 line function or something. If code is running once in order, there's no reason to break it up into functions and take it out of execution order. That's just stupid.
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by BigJono 4y ago
> and it's the kind of readability refactor that you'd often want to do anyway even if the code wasn't being shared. Couldn't disagree more tbh. Some of the worst code I've ever had to work with has been over abs
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by BigJono 4y ago
No, they shouldn't look at some of the frameworks. They're all more complex than just making a bog standard SPA, which seems to be working fine for them. People need to stop bringing in that complexity when they don't need se
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by BigJono 4y ago
Assuming you're importing it as a black box abstraction, then absolutely. 'isEven' really shouldn't be a dependency though, either through npm or internally. 'x % 2 === 0' works fine for integers and can be inl
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by BigJono 4y ago
Let's call a spade a spade. It's a bunch of noobs that have become the majority and created a culture of dependency-first development. I haven't worked with anyone for years that doesn't start troubleshooting an issue by
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by BigJono 4y ago
You don't handle it. Garbage in, garbage out.
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by BigJono 4y ago
Fixing security issues is nice, how about we go a step further and learn to write a one or two liner instead of inundating every project with 400,000 indirect dependencies?
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by BigJono 4y ago
> no code systems let you hire cheap replaceable folk instead of highly paid technical folk Until they don't, then you get to this point: > just a few technical folk to clean up all the rubbish the others make Which gets exponent
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by BigJono 4y ago
When people talk about something being simple (or complex), they're talking about how many "things" there are in the concept, rather than how easy or intuitive it is to understand (since that's subjective, as pointed out
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by BigJono 4y ago
> You fetch the data on the server, and send pre-rendered HTML to the browser. You can, of course, also do client-side data fetching (e.g. `useEffect`) as you mentioned. That's only if you're loading the app from the server on
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by BigJono 4y ago
The sweet spot is still there, in theory. React itself is just a few functions forming a very simple (but not necessarily intuitive) abstraction. The issue is the community is batshit and it's almost impossible to find or build a team
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by BigJono 4y ago
It implements some patterns for rendering in both environments using the same code. The main problem with rendering in both the client and server environments using the same code is that you need to fetch data in two different places. On th
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by BigJono 5y ago
Table stakes for what? Fucking around with types for 6 months while someone builds a competitor in a weekend?
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by BigJono 5y ago
I've never found this to be much of a problem in good code. API failures in front-end code tend to fall into a couple of buckets that can be abstracted away. If you want to preserve the page and keep retrying with exponential backoff,
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by BigJono 5y ago
You pretty much just described half the TC-39 proposals. I wish this shit was limited to noobs on Medium.
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by BigJono 5y ago
That sounds like way too far in the other direction at both places. Stuff like drinks and printers are basically noise compared to engineering payroll when you're paying people $250k a year. The lesson should be buy whatever the hell p
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by BigJono 5y ago
Yeah I've been playing the same mod for years now too. It's basically the 3rd expansion as far as I'm concerned haha. I just remember picking up Civ V when it came out and going back to Civ IV because it got boring after a wh
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by BigJono 5y ago
Civ V is an interesting case, since there's another thread in here somewhere about companies charging to fix design mistakes, and Civilization was really one of the OGs when it comes to that. I wouldn't say Vanilla Civ V was bad
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by BigJono 5y ago
The amount of code used here to do something so simple is absolutely staggering. This library abstracts over youtube-react, which abstracts over youtube-player, which abstracts over the Youtube API itself, each one proving hundreds or thous
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by BigJono 5y ago
There's 72% of them but 64.8% have found a way to adapt. You can still fiddle with Jira settings and schedule bullshit meetings online.
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by BigJono 5y ago
There's probably a lot of reasons for both points of view with different weighting for different people, and there's lot of middle ground between in office and remote too. Personally I actually like working in person, just not eve
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by BigJono 5y ago
Or my personal favourite: "Screw it, this works, but I'm bored so I'm going to add 3rd party libraries to it until it doesn't work".
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by BigJono 5y ago
State as in not federal. Not state as in nation. 1/8th of the country takes a different approach to a public health crisis and suddenly every hot take American conservative talks about invading the country. But the federal government u

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