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"Facebook has done a good job of deprecating and warning for the last few months, but not all libraries are well-maintained and if you depend on or have forked a great many ancient…

besides - if you generate your SVG programmatically you can just return them in your render function: function Foo(props) { return }

> Once the product-market fit is achieved (...) > it makes sense to start cleaning up the codebase. This is very optimistic assumption that people will actually clean the codebase …

Like they say "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." ;) Apps without `refresh` claim to be ones which managed to solve caching …

> I simply asked for the differences, One of differences could be that Redux has only one object("actor") which can receive messages - that's store. In actor model there are many a…

> since Redux is much more prevalent. Actually it's quite opposite. Redux is a library which was created not until 2 years ago and it is used only in JavaScript. Actor model and si…

Redux is a chicken, actor model is an egg. Similar patterns were used decades before Redux was even born.

> I think it really helps with maintenance and scalability of > projects down the road and saves you time later on. It's popular argument but I don't think it's completely correct.…

I've created library `transmutable` for performing automatic copy-on-write behavior in JS (you just write imperative code which is transformed behind scenes into immutable updates …

I never understood why to run Slack as desktop app if Slack can be run in a browser with the same GUI and features. Am I missing something?

> In practice, though, very little code > written for Electron will run in a browser. I think many things could run in a browser. All GUI, whole visual layer could run in a browser…

on the beginning I used getters/setters but I switched to Proxy because it allowed for simpler implementation and more flexibility. I may consider to switch back into getters/sette…

I've build a library Transmutable which falls into the third category :) it allows to use immutable data structures in mutable-like way, using plain assignments: https://www.npmjs.…

Redux for sure. Smalltalk had message based system like Redux has (with the difference that in smalltalk this system was object oriented). But functional programming also existed i…

"build on top of existing, well-defined codebases/APIs." is not necessarily easier than "engineer a complete, well-rounded, extensible codebase/API himself." I think these are two …

> Eventually you are going to get bugs, I read:"Sometimes you are going to get event bus." Indeed sometimes simple event bus (pub-sub etc.) could be sufficient for replace Redux. E…

what is "lifecycle component"?

It's interesting. What browsers do people use on this machines? Though according to wikipedia most popular browser is Chrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_brows…

I upvoted you.

BTW how to downvote comments on HN? I sometimes "flag" them to mark as downvote, but I'm not sure if flag is the same as downvote.

I've been downvoted because HN has Dislike Button which encourages people to downvote things they personally don't like instead of making constructive arguments ;)