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The 3REE Stack: React, Redux, RethinkDB and Express.js

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Re: The 3REE Stack: React, Redux, RethinkDB and Express.js

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3 shiny new techs, and one clunky older one. Why use Express.js instead of its successor Koa.js?

Fair point. I didn't really give this layer too much thought considering the focus of the blog. It could really be any Node.js framework.

Although saying that, if I had chosen Koa.js the stack would have to be called 3REK, or 3RKE :/

Re: The 3REE Stack: React, Redux, RethinkDB and Express.js

#9

Ah, the "Making debugging impossible because we're cool" kind of stack

I think if you take a lot at the motivations that Dan Abramov had for creating Redux [1], you'll see that improving debugging was at the centre of it. Check out his talk he gave at React-Europe. He basically is talking about improving developer tools. The functional approach Redux takes allows for you to see state transitions and replay actions - making it relatively trivial (compared to say Angular.js) to understand how to reproduce a buggy state.

[1] https://github.com/rackt/redux

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs

Re: The 3REE Stack: React, Redux, RethinkDB and Express.js

#10

Ah, the "Making debugging impossible because we're cool" kind of stack

Dude, this is half the point of redux. Theres a debugger that lets you visually step through every state of the store and your corresponding app - https://github.com/gaearon/redux-devtools
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