Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and TypeScript

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 12:44 PM UTC

acemarke wrote: post #14

xab9 wrote: post #12

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Well, typescript is nice. But. The amount of boilerplate I write with redux is downright annoying, add typescript to the mix and the interfaces, typedefinitions, enums, various scattered exports, actioncreators and typehelpers are just mind-boggling - I don't like it. Heck, I already have huge livetemplates in my ide to generate most of these stuff, but it feels wrong. And while we have fun writing "enterprise qualit…

Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. We're currently working on a package called `redux-starter-kit` that contains some utilities to help simplify common concerns about Redux, including store setup, generating action creators, and writing reducer logic and immutable updates: https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-starter-kit I'd appreciate it if you could take a look, try it out, and give us some feedback. It's currently JS-only, b…

Post by h1d » Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 1:56 PM UTC

eksemplar wrote: post #13

JoshuaScript wrote: post #7

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Thanks, it started out as regular, valid JS, then I figured I might as well convert it to TypeScript, and I did so (perhaps too) quickly. I do plan to add stronger typing later.

What advantages did you get from typescript? Seems like type safety is a huge trade off from what you lost by adding those amounts of complexity, especially when you’re not really utilising it.

Post by tdevito » Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 1:59 PM UTC

abhishekjha wrote: post #23

I was looking into how google was implemented initially with the pagerank algorithm and I think I am getting closer. Do they still use the same algorithm? I ahve no concept of how things behave when they scale or how to scale for that matter.

Post by jeremychone » Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 3:24 PM UTC

eksemplar wrote: post #36

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You'd get more benefit if you're developing API where random others are consuming your code for them to use API properly. But still, it can still save you from obvious mistakes even for a one man project.

I agree but I’d pick graphql for that instead of typescript.

Post by fastball » Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 3:37 PM UTC

xab9 wrote: post #12

fastball wrote: post #5

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Heh. Wait, you're joking right?

Well, typescript is nice. But. The amount of boilerplate I write with redux is downright annoying, add typescript to the mix and the interfaces, typedefinitions, enums, various scattered exports, actioncreators and typehelpers are just mind-boggling - I don't like it. Heck, I already have huge livetemplates in my ide to generate most of these stuff, but it feels wrong. And while we have fun writing "enterprise qualit…