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by amitu 13y ago
Hey, it was just a tutorial feature, I have tried to faithfully copy the feature as done in jquery to demonstrate its not really any different from jquery, and if you read till near the end, its arguably much better than jquery based soluti
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by amitu 13y ago
Dojo is trying to get rid of the design elements present since as early as 2005. In another decade yes, but this whole shift to is geared towards a more stable 2.0. It is the developers who want more change, not the dojo foundation, who is
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by amitu 13y ago
True, but it is not like dojo is continue to do that. Dojo is going to a 2.0 release and there is a massive change between 1.0 and 2.0, primarily AMD. Dojo has previously shown a long history of backward compatibility. One of concerns of ma
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by amitu 13y ago
Please guys, ignore the dojo history. There is massive difference between dojo 1.6 and 1.7, and 1.9 is much more improved version of 1.7 too. Dojo is changing fast, do not dismiss dojo1.9 because you burnt your fingers with dojo1.3 or due
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by amitu 13y ago
I am here saying you must consider it for next, especially large scale javascript project. Start with dojo-1.9, assume anything before this never happened. Read my tutorial. I dont want to be contradictory, but dojo truly shines in large sc
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by amitu 13y ago
In my opinion you need dojo-scaffold (now outdated) or dojo-boilerplate(still recommended by dojo developers) only if you do not understand dojo well. I am quite sure after reading the article I wrote you will not need any of those clutches
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by amitu 13y ago
There is no "vendor lock-in". If you read the article I have written, if you have written AMDs you can use requirejs. What I highly recommend if use dojo's declare way of doing object oriented javascript. Specialized libraries are always go
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by amitu 13y ago
I have written the article because I agree with you, dojo is not intuitive. Dojo has a lot of documentation, but since dojo is in such a flux there is a lot of documentation that is out of date. After using dojo for at least one big project
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by amitu 13y ago
If you do not do JS compilation then you are either forced to not split up your project into logically different files, or you incur too many HTTP requests over head. If a project is just a few lines copy pasted here and there, then sure, b
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by amitu 13y ago
Thanks to be of use :-)
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by amitu 13y ago
I take your point. Dojo has tried to do a lot of things, and some of those have not panned out as well as the other parts. I am getting your point. I would prefer if dojo lowered the marketing on the rich set of existing widgets, as very fe
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by amitu 13y ago
Please take a look at the application I have built, the build step is just two commands: https://github.com/amitu/dkudos/blob/master/build_dojo , and the "require boilerplate" is just 7-8 lines: https://github.com/amitu/dkudos/blob/master
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by amitu 13y ago
Like I mentioned in tutorial and in the other comment, we are doing too much today. With advent of HTML5 we are pushing more and more server logic to client. Today we have javascript templating languages, javascript MVC frameworks, all of t
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by amitu 13y ago
My opinion is that dojo should forget about backward compatibility once, or create a dojo2 fork, there is too much new things happening that are quite exciting. But dojo is slowed down due to legacy code support. jQuery is good for another
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Dojo for jQuery Developers: A comprehensive tutorial(dojomonk.com)
40 points by amitu 13y ago|34 comments
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by amitu 14y ago
Hey singold, The primary motivation was when making it easy to use django for API like apps. Moving to flask etc meant losing all the django knowledge and batteries. Most simple project start small, and importd makes it easy for starting sm
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by amitu 14y ago
Hey Igor, if you take a look at http://pythonhosted.org/importd/#importd-and-custom-models , you will see that importd still works perfectly well with normal django app, and it is recommended when your project grow large that you indeed sp
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by amitu 14y ago
Hey, I am the author of the module, as well as that of smarturls and fhurl mentioned there. I understand the concern about magic, and moving parts. I guess the right answer to that concern would be unittests, that I am in the process or wri
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Show HN: importd – d is for django(pythonhosted.org)
116 points by amitu 14y ago|30 comments
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by amitu 14y ago
Here is how I made django easier: http://amitu.com/importd/ :-)
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by amitu 14y ago
"Dojo does not provide significant benefit over jQuery or similar tools to warrant switching frameworks." This is not correct at all. Compared to jquery, dojo is significantly better option for large projects. Dojo has a very rich unified s
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by amitu 14y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, I am looking into boilerplate now. I like that build.sh in dojo boilerplate "minifies" the html file too! I checked your todo.sh project, I see the html page, and java loads, but nothing happens when I type someth
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by amitu 14y ago
This. Go code. Open source. Port your first game to HTML5/canvas, just for the kicks. Pick up new language. Record a screencast of hello world of some technology you like. Port an algorithmically interesting code, eg a hashing function from
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by amitu 14y ago
Point 1. is indeed a "uncomfortable" part of dojo. Getting started is difficult. For a lot of demo and hello world like apps CDN version is fine, assuming they are only using the modules packaged into dojo.js on CDN. If you start using othe
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by amitu 14y ago
It is written using dojo. It showcases a rather rich, albiet rather slow, web app done using dojo.
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by amitu 14y ago
One of the best javascript library out there, checkout my work in progress attempt to port ikog to web while I am learning dojo: https://github.com/amitu/ikog . I find dojo project way more neater than an equivalent jquery project by defau
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Show HN: smarturls for Django (regular expression helper)(amitu.com)
2 points by amitu 14y ago|0 comments
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Stupid Mistake Jekyll and GitHub Made (And Solution)(amitu.com)
1 points by amitu 14y ago|0 comments
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A geeks view on religion(amitu.com)
1 points by amitu 17y ago|0 comments
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by amitu 17y ago
One reason to use this would be to get well indented HTML. Finding the potentially missing closing </div> tag has been a common problem I have seen some people face.

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