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by jenius 14y ago
That could certainly be true, and is a good point. I was only speaking to the visual design here - message is definitely important though.
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by jenius 14y ago
Yes, I thought you would probably take some offense at it (which you clearly did), which is why I said "I mean it in the least offensive way possible". I have nothing against you personally, and frankly I'm sure you are a wonderful person.
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by jenius 14y ago
I mean this in the least insulting way possible -- I think you just lack design sense. His redesigns are very clearly significantly better (which is why they have been so popular here on HN), and default bootstrap ALWAYS looks bad on a prof
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by jenius 14y ago
Latest response ever, but wow what an awful reply. As tempted as I am to go over this and pick apart every way that this is a bad and inaccurate reply, it's not worth it. So here is a summary my overall feelings, to clarify my original com
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by jenius 14y ago
Relevant: http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/18/3780158/instagrams-new-te...
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by jenius 14y ago
Yeah I mean this is really not good design, at all. And I'm so strongly against the idea of using bootstrap as a "hey slap this on my site and now i don't need to worry about design anymore!" type tool -- the fact that this person is trying
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by jenius 14y ago
You should check out railwayjs before you get too deep into it - this might do what you were after: http://railwayjs.com/
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by jenius 14y ago
I only say this because I'm surprised you posted another comment just linking to a comment that's already been made. Usually the practice is to add your opinion under the existing comment or upvote it. It seemed to me that you posted it aga
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by jenius 14y ago
Meteor is not the same type of project as roots at all, so this comparison doesn't exactly make sense. Although meteor is an awesome project and in addition is backed by at least 3 people working on it full time : )
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by jenius 14y ago
Thanks for bringing that up - I'll check it out and see if I can get that fixed shortly!
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by jenius 14y ago
Hey James, Sounds like a cool project - excited to see it for sure. The tough part with projects like this is making sure that it's simple but still flexible. For example, can you fully customize the rest routes, or are those just generated
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by jenius 14y ago
Thanks! I'll check it out. Feel free to ping me on twitter if you're having trouble or want me to put one together - http://twitter.com/jescalan
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by jenius 14y ago
Because it's simple. Getting over the 'installed' barrier is important. I include very clear instructions on how to install with npm above the "| sh script". If people thought this was really a disaster, that comment would have been upvot
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by jenius 14y ago
Good news - I already made a plugin for rails : ) https://github.com/jenius/roots-rails
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by jenius 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback, and so glad you like it! I made a plugin interface just for things like adding typescript support. I know pretty much nothing about typescript through, are there any good node compilers out there? It would be incred
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by jenius 14y ago
Do you mean on possibly future deploy to ftp implementation? There's a pretty long story behind that one too - ftp is brutal to work with.
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by jenius 14y ago
You won't regret it. Just give yourself a week or so to get used to it - it seems frustrating at first when you make syntax errors, but it is a life saver in the long run
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by jenius 14y ago
If you want to use basic html, css, and js, you can use the flag --basic to the end of a roots new command : ) But yeah I'm thinking some option for custom default templates might be nice to add, now that you bring this up. Also, try coffee
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by jenius 14y ago
Ok, i see what you're saying. That is the exact mission of this library ( https://github.com/jenius/roots-css ) which is behind roots. I would love any help or advice on making this go where you imagine it can. Hit me up via email or twitte
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by jenius 14y ago
Ah, thank you. I'll fix that link right away.
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by jenius 14y ago
I made it my specific goal not to have this as a bootstrap alternate - there's already boostrap and foundation - why do we need more? In addition, I'm very much against using classes to dry up your css. You should be using mixins or extends
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by jenius 14y ago
Thank you! Yeah, you can absolutely use plain js. You can just drop a plain js file in there and delete the coffeescript - everything should still compile perfectly.
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by jenius 14y ago
Hey Zeljko, Thanks so much for leaving feedback - really appreciate it. It helps a lot, and thanks so much for your kind words as well. Just out of curiosity, why would you prefer sass and haml? Have you tried stylus and jade? If not, you s
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by jenius 14y ago
Hi - I'm a developer too, full time, and I'm the one who made this so I guess I should be the one explaining it. Roots is for front-end devs or devs who do front-end work. It makes doing front-end work blazing fast and much less repetitive.
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by jenius 14y ago
I had never heard of onejs. I'll look into it now and if it looks promising definitely include it!
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by jenius 14y ago
Awesome, thanks. Got your email, will be in touch shortly!
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by jenius 14y ago
Thanks so much! I really appreciate it. Proto looks like top quality stuff - excellent work. I'm going to check this out in depth - perhaps our tools can learn something from each other or combine in some way : )
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by jenius 14y ago
The placeholder selectors are the one thing stylus does not have. I'd like to see if I can build that in and send a pull request at some point. But for a library like this I need flex and intelligence which means i'll be using mixins over p
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by jenius 14y ago
I prefer using mixins over extend, as they are more flexible and intelligent. If you don't structure your classes correctly it can lead to some code duplication, but frankly this doesn't make any speed difference after gzip anyway. To respo
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by jenius 14y ago
The major advantages to stylus (rather than putting down sass, which i do still love) that I saw were these: - native css-style syntax for mixins - ability to pull properties from a parent (killer) - better programming logic and syntax - ru

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