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by mercer 6y ago
That's a very fair comment, but I do sort of agree with the person you're replying to. Others here have provided reasons why Tailwind is great, and many comments just center around how it's at least not a bad idea. But for
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by mercer 6y ago
Once I properly used Tailwind for a mid-sized project, I was pretty much sold on it. Size was my main issue. With PurgeCSS the payload can be really small though. it only includes the Tailwind classes that you're actually using.
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by mercer 6y ago
Agreed. Although I'd say that in practice I often find the need to use mostly a fixed set of Tailwind classes + some adjustments. It can help to use @apply, but I think even the documentation advises against reaching for it too quickly
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by mercer 6y ago
I agree that styled-components takes care of a bunch of issues that make some of us reach for Tailwind. However, aside from requiring a very specific tech stack, it doesn't solve the problem of every component potentially having slight
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by mercer 6y ago
> Then you define the corresponding rule. With SASS that is almost too easy. Also, don't forget that the C in CSS means cascading. Over the lifetime of projects 'cascading' always led to headaches. There's a reason th
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by mercer 6y ago
I was here for all the discussions about how React went against the idea of mixing html and js, but once I started using it and grokking how that wasn't really the case, I found React to be so much more pleasant than what had come befo
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd say that does illustrate why I chose to just get proficient in Vim though. There are enough of these kinds of scenarios where having it available is very useful. But if you don't know Vim, you wouldn't bother learning it
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by mercer 6y ago
I'll name one use case where Vim's approach helps me out a lot: macros. Quite often I need to edit a whole bunch of lines of code/data in a similar way. simply being able to repeat a particular set of 'motions' x ti
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by mercer 6y ago
Yup. I mean, put humans in fecal-infested close confinement in numbers of 10.000s and see what happens. Big petry dish.
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by mercer 6y ago
Apparently a similar issue occurs with Raccoon Dogs in China, so I share your concerns.
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by mercer 6y ago
I switched from Spacemacs the last time Doom Emacs was discussed here and I'm very happy with it. Took me a while to adjust, and sometimes I'll miss something Spacemacs did, or struggle with muscle-memory, but overall it's be
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by mercer 6y ago
True, in this particular case it does seem inefficient. And of course there's nothing stopping one from just doing this with a bit of js. But in the bigger picture, the advantages of this approach are huge: 1. no need to maintain state
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by mercer 6y ago
While it might be a stretch, both 88 and 38 are associated with, among other things, of course, white supremacy.
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by mercer 6y ago
That's surprising to hear. Do you have any links that go into this (or show benchmarks)? I generally avoid PHP, but I've been thinking of looking into Laravel for when I do need to use PHP.
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by mercer 6y ago
Ha, true. Nice to meet you!
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by mercer 6y ago
The click would be sent as an event to the server, where the state is changed (setting "active_tab" or something like that). Then the view would be re-rendered (probably only changing a few class names) and the diff sent back down
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd say Eloquent Javascript (available for free online, I think) is a good book to read. "You Don't Know JS" is also a good one! Basically, go for anything that teaches you non-js-specific approaches as well as as a soli
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by mercer 6y ago
Agreed, but to be fair I suspect a polyglot programmer will still choose many other languages, outside of Java, over JavaScript.
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by mercer 6y ago
Thanks for the in-good-faith response! I'd say that covers DDD pretty well. I do still feel that the link between that and your suggestions in the initial comment are still tenuous and vague 'management-speak', but still, tha
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by mercer 6y ago
could you comment on how a cursory use of your 'blazing fast SPA' apparently has multiple serious issues and whether this is enough to warrant a paradigm-shift re your belief on how awesome SPAs are? All this almost feels like a p
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by mercer 6y ago
> I'm definitely not a mindless CTO. ;) Based on this comment you do kind of sound like one. Could you elaborate on what you think 'Domain Driven Design' is, and what you think 'boundaries' are in the context of
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by mercer 6y ago
I like how this whole thread highlights just one of the problems of SPA's. It's not exactly an endorsement!
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by mercer 6y ago
A while back I was faced with using whatever god-awful backwards-incompatible version of react-router to use, or instead to go for a routing solution that wasn't as insane. I don't remember what I picked, but I think it was page.j
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd say this is perhaps an unknown unknown situation. I've had a wonderful time working with Preact and Express, but I wouldn't go back to it after becoming comfortable with the LiveView paradigm.
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by mercer 6y ago
> Note how I didn't say that many polyglots may think it's the best language, just that it's great as opposed to awful. Fair enough :). I think 'great' is a bit of a vague concept, but I definitely would agree th
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by mercer 6y ago
> My experience is that LiveView is fine for all but the last use case. >> I wouldn't want to impose a 50-500ms+ delay on someone to show a menu drop down or a tooltip or most of the other things listed out. It's basicall
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by mercer 6y ago
My experience with LiveView has been similar. I can highly recommend looking into Tailwind (and Tailwind UI). For me, it solved some of the pain of still having to deal with CSS and various preprocessors for it. I can now create entire work
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd say that's the main (potential) 'problem' with LiveView, alongside latency issues. In practice, I've usually found that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages when it comes to the former. Beefing up my server
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by mercer 6y ago
I don't know any polyglot programmers who would consider javascript better than at least one of the other languages they use, and would ditch js for those if they had the option. TypesScript, maybe.
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by mercer 6y ago
I can't recall reading much on how going for 'the cloud' or 'serverless' saved anyone money. On the other hand, I've read my fair share of horror stories about how costs ballooned and going for the old-fashione

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