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Here's one: https://medium.com/@mbaranovski/quick-guide-to-tdd-in-react-...

Extracted boilerplate from some of my libs: https://github.com/alexkrolick/react-lib-quickstart Want to port this to a CLI eventually, too

IMO its origins in the gaming community, and all the moderation features that grew out of it, make Discord a much better fit for open source communities than Slack. For example: - …

A framework like Phoenix would be awesome. Even something more lightweight (Express-like) would be pretty handy. Clojurescript front-end, Clojure backend...

CSS-in-JS libs like https://emotion.sh make "micro-componentization" even easier - pretty much every raw DOM element can be replaced by a domain-relevant/ui-relevant component type…

Fastify is a similar project that aims to be faster than Express and adds a number of API improvements like baked-in schema validation for routes, logging, and async-by-default API…

This would be a good checklist for anyone considering building a UI framework. This kind of thing is the reason Bootstrap & friends are so large - they do a lot for you.

I have to agree, this will create a new component type every time the function is called, definitely causing a repaint and re-render of the subtree. The "right" way to do this is r…

Still, it isn't entirely obvious under what conditions the methods of a React Component class are going to be called. For all you know they might always be called against the insta…

Wrote about that recently: https://medium.com/@alexkrolick/writing-react-components-for... See also: the docs

The adapter system is super interesting: https://github.com/airbnb/enzyme/blob/master/docs/guides/mig... This might be the way to go for complex dependencies like React where APIs …

Yeah, I wrote about it last week: https://medium.com/@alexkrolick/writing-react-components-for... "Overall it's not a bad experience. JSX makes HTML feel more at home, but tends to…

I could be wrong, but I don't think a LISP macro can transform the structure of the code in the same way that the JSX pragma turns an XML tree "inside-out". For example here's the …

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React is my preferred frontend library, so rather than ditch it when I needed to work with a CMS I decided to go JSX-free and write my component in plain ES2015 with Preact's hyper…