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The react ecosystem is massive, and includes impressive projects like the various backends/renderers: react-native, react-sketch.app, react-vr, react-pdf, ink, that have no equival…

> The only event that license terminated Patent grant terminated, not license

Looks like they're working on moving away from bower: https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/issues/326#issuecomment-3... A quick CDN get-started would be convenient I agree. There is …

And also this (cross-plat React Native for Windows/iOS/Android): https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp

Yeah I don't have a stake/opinion, just posted that particular article because it's a recent, thorough take, by a lawyer.

They're referring to the 'patent retaliation clause', see: https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/react-facebook-and-the-revok...

Another premii fan here. Has some nice touches like the night mode mentioned and 'Appearance' settings (font/font-size/colour).

> Bootstrap is so 2015. BS 3 is still very valuable for responsive-site conventions within a team, especially if you use it 'properly' from Sass or LESS source. The main part looki…

> The plugin interface is a public interface too, right? It didn't say 'plugin interface'. It said 'internal changes' that could affect some plugins. The way I read that is some pl…

> From the list of JS libraries they're using alone, I'm guessing it's going to get even fatter and laggier than it already was :( Why? Only 3 of the 'JS libraries' listed are actu…

Soon with the new webpack-cli, you'll just be able to 'webpack init': https://medium.com/webpack/announcing-the-new-webpack-cli-75...

Hell no :) The Amazon downloads seem to all be 44.1 khz mp3 (just downloaded an album of mine to check).

Webpack's HMR (hot reloading) of JS does work with create-react-app, but only if you use an external state store (like Redux), see [1]. The 'React Hot Loader' [2] module, which mai…

Worth knowing most new vinyl records come with a copy of the digital download too. Amazon will also automatically add (most?) vinyl purchases to your Amazon Music Library, and allo…

Here's Divvy doing this in 2010 [1], the question is if Divvy is related to the patent or if they too received a letter. [1] http://lifehacker.com/5715221/divvy-window-organizer-la…

True for async code, but if you use something like ShellJS [1] (which would be an easy way to rewrite a bash script that was getting out of hand), all commands are synchronous, so …

Awfully vague/FUDdy criticisms there: - dynamic require()'s can't be tree-shaken: same is true of other langs, e.g. Python. Perfectly understandable IMO as Node was designed for th…