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by jenius 14y ago
For sure. I actually built roots on top of sass originally, and I became frustrated with it's limitations. I tried porting it to stylus because that was the only viable alternative that I knew of, and once I started working with it I couldn
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by jenius 14y ago
I'd be happy to help out advising on the design as well if you want. Great work on mimosa, obviously I'm a fan of these kinds of tools : )
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by jenius 14y ago
Thanks so much! Really appreciate it. I am a backend dev and spend much of my time in rails (as you can probably tell from the way this project was written), so I very specifically built this to work with rails. I have a plugin here ( https
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by jenius 14y ago
for sure, this was what i was aiming for. if i were better at cocoa dev i would have made a little mac app too. I pimped out stylus and avoided sass/compass for very specific reasons. try using the roots-css library and let me know what you
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by jenius 14y ago
I will admit that this is a rather opinionated framework. I'm kind of shooting for the apple philosophy - reduce flexibility for a lighter and more beautiful product. I've worked with a lot of compiled languages and for me, these are the cl
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by jenius 14y ago
I was not aware, but I think this is ok. This roots is a vastly different tool that will appeal to a very different audience : )
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by jenius 14y ago
For sure. I do work mainly on backend dev, and the roots-rails and roots-express plugins help me out a decent amount. Roots specifically is targeted to front-end though. If you have any suggestions on how to tie this together nicely with ba
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by jenius 14y ago
Both! Any and all contributions are more than welcome. I don't know what the eff I'm doing. This works great for me, but if I can make it better for everyone else I'm all about that. I'll continue to work hard on this until it's the best it
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by jenius 14y ago
this looks really cool, thanks for sharing! i'm definitely going to check it out and pick it apart : )
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by jenius 14y ago
Ah thanks! I definitely should have tested more on linux. Are there any other commands you saw that might not work? I'll make that update shortly
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by jenius 14y ago
I think the reason is because this isn't a code-based library, it's a command line client. The portion that is more code-based (the css library) is chock full of code examples, and all the commands are listed out on the front page. After lo
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by jenius 14y ago
middleman ( http://middlemanapp.com/ ) is a solid alternative for ruby as well - this is the only other one i know of apart from yeoman as you mentioned
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by jenius 14y ago
If you check the source, really this is all the script does. It checks to see if you have node, and if you do it runs npm install roots -g. But this is good feedback and if other people feel the same I'll definitely swap out the one-command
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by jenius 14y ago
Thank you - great catch. Already fixed and shipped : )
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by jenius 14y ago
Fair enough. This is why I have explicit instructions on how to install without the run-as-remote-file install method right above it. Do you think it would help to add a view source link next to it or something?
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by jenius 14y ago
Haha was very prepared for this question. The main differences for me are that roots doesn't rely on ruby, it's built for advanced devs (starts with jade, stylus, and coffeescript), it uses roots-css rather than compass, and the project str
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by jenius 14y ago
I know, I definitely need to do a better job with the videos. I just did them this morning (wasn't planning on having them but i thought it might be a good idea) and vimeo really murdered me on the resolution, not sure why. I'll have new on
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by jenius 14y ago
Hey guys - project creator here. Would love to get any and all feedback - this project has been my passion for over a year and I'm super excited to finally release it! Also, this website is open source in addition to the project. It's here
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Show HN: roots - a toolkit for advanced front-end dev(roots.cx)
195 points by jenius 14y ago|114 comments
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by jenius 14y ago
Ah, I thought perhaps this was going to be another link to this story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4910212
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by jenius 14y ago
great response. i see what you're getting at from this and other peoples' replies - that the most important thing you learned was that doing hoodrat stuff with your friends is awesome. The only reason i posted this was because it read to me
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by jenius 14y ago
haha yea wait i read this and was like what exactly... what?
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by jenius 14y ago
Dear fat, This post comes off to me as cocky and untrue. First, the general tone of this seems very pompous to me. To me, it reads: "I know so much that even building the most popular project on github and possibly of any library on the web
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by jenius 14y ago
Related - I once answered a stack overflow question and the guy hunted down my phone number and called me to see if he could get clarification. So crazy.
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by jenius 14y ago
Love this article - really fantastic writing, and the doodles are a nice addition. I'm surprised I'm not seeing this rocket straight to the top. I have yet to host a very popular open source project, but this advice is great for if/when tha
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by jenius 14y ago
Shit, they got me with the rick roll (short link end of video)
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by jenius 14y ago
Whatever happened to semantic and readable code? view-source: http://www.bootstraphero.com/the-big-badass-list-of-twitter-...
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Mobile web unity(blog.jenius.me)
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Show HN: Knitt - What I Want Out of Facebook(blog.keenancummings.com)
3 points by jenius 14y ago|1 comments
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by jenius 14y ago
good reply and good point. thank you

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