51–60 of 121 posts
ugh- how is Angular so popular?
Hugely disagree with this. I really like Vue - but in my (very limited) experience, its appeal is that even though it's not as powerful or flexible as React or Angular it's way easier to learn and get moving with. Fewer new concepts, less new tooling, no ecosystem of related stuff to consider, etc.
I'd have suggested learning Vue first, and sticking with it until you outgrow it. If you start with Ng/Rx, and get to where you're comfortable and have a tooling/workflow around them that works for you, then sure you could still learn Vue afterwards but I'm not sure what it gets you.
Learn in order to unlearn one year later - welcome to .js !
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait, are we actually praising the webpack docs now? How far have we come.
I think you're being downvoted due to strawman ([s]he praised documenting concepts, not the documentation as a whole) but you're right though. I've never dived into my toolchain code (due to missing or frugal documentation) more than I've been forced to with Webpack. It suffers from tutorial-like instructions and a lack of formal list-like documentation, which leads to conflicting or confusing configurations (very ea…
Exactly. I wish I could help with docs for Webpack, but personally I'm willing to trade extensive documentation for a friendly community. These aren't mutually exclusive of course, but I've seen my share of OSS projects with a bad attitude towards beginners and people who are just missing some detail for the whole thing to click.
Likewise, my point re: boilerplates would be moot if most boilerplates had good docs (even if just a detailed README).
ugh- how is Angular so popular?
I'd much rather stay on the well beaten path with a mature, less sexy, less efficient solution than hack my way through the jungle with something more contemporary and powerful but less mature and less well understood.
I'm going to make my 2017 enjoyable by not working with JavaScript at all.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a nice-sounding programming mantra but it doesn't make much sense in the real world, in my opinion. Learning the "philosophy" of Redux is a natural by-product of learning how to actually use Redux. To me this is the equivalent of saying "learn molecular chemistry, don't follow recipes" to someone who's trying to learn how to cook. It may be true that the most experienced chefs have a deep understanding of che…
That's a bad analogy. Cooking is much less complex, so learning it without much background works rather well. Just look what your philosophy brought us, a horde of 'developers' who thought JavaScript is jQuery.
Highly recommend spending at least a few hours on https://javascript30.com if you get a chance.