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You may want to check out previewjs.com (disclaimer I'm the author) although it's unfortunately not getting much love or attention lately, my kids are using all of that.

Unless I completely misunderstood the post, a function that calls another function with effects will indeed be "infected". That is, unless the effect ends up being local (such as p…

Yes! They're called discriminated unions: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/typescript-in-5... Here's an example: https://tseditor.fwouts.com/?t=ZXhwb3J0IHR5cGUgVmFsdWUg…

This is now implemented. Easier than expected!

Generating random values is live now :)

Oh, I was wondering if people would ask for that exact scenario! I'll see if I can make that happen, check again in a few days :)

Thanks for the feedback! Random values sound like a fantastic idea. It shouldn't be too hard to implement in the current codebase either. I'll add it in the coming days/weeks.

Hey HN! I've been doing a lot of work with the TypeScript Compiler API[1] recently as part of my work on Preview.js[2], an IDE extension that lets you preview React/Solid/Vue compo…

Hey! Author of Preview.js here :) It's early days and you might find that Preview.js can be a little difficult to set up in a large, complex project (working on improving that now)…

Thank you, appreciate it! :)

Hi everyone, author here. This was originally an extension for Visual Studio Code to preview React components directly in your IDE (that's still available too, as well as for Intel…

Hi everyone! I've been working on React Preview for a few months. It's currently only available for Visual Studio Code, but an IntelliJ/WebStorm and CLI versions are also in the wo…

This is a really cool idea! A bit of self-promotion: I've been building something similar but without the visual editing, integrating directly in your VS Code editor (and soon Inte…

I was frustrated with people missing emails/slack messages about GitHub pull requests. I built a browser extension that shows a notification pop-up and updates the extension badge …

I really like seeing efforts being made in this direction. For the last few years I've been using git-town.com, which works quite well but I often end up having to work around it (…

A colleague of mine who I value as a good tech lead recently wrote some tips based on his experience: https://medium.com/swlh/two-lessons-youll-learn-in-your-firs... He also just p…