Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development
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Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development
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Re: Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development
#2Javascript Boilerplate Fatigue
Re: Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development
#3Maybe it's just me, but I didn't find it all that difficult to get started with webpack after a few tutorials and samples. This seems like it hides away something that people should probably understand, which isn't all that difficult to get started with. Also when you start combining different packages in webpack (or encounter an error (or want to make some decisions in the config script)), the standard copy/paste boiler plate becomes less and less useful.
This looks neat, I just don't think it's likely to do away with configuration completely unless you've got a very standard setup.
That aside, it sort of sounds like the goal here is "a sort of package manager which also handles boilerplate"? Definitely sounds useful when you want to quickly try something new.
Re: Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development
#4Javascript Boilerplate Fatigue
This appears to be the opposite of boilerplate. It's a tool that replaces verbose, brittle, code with a single dependency.
Re: Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development
#5Reminds me of a framework-agnostic vue-cli. Though that simply builds a configuration/tooling-setup which you can then tweak to your liking. Not sure what I think of using a neutrino-specific config in the package.json for overrides, feels bloated compared to just editing the webpack config directly, and doesn't make it any easier. But to each his own, I guess.
That name though, I guess particles are en vogue :)
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#7I think this is a cool tool, but it's somewhere between funny and depressing that the article brags about how they were able to get a 'Hello, world!' program up in less than 5 minutes.
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#8I've been doing something like this for a while. I have my entire build process as a project on NPM itself. I just have to import it into my projects and write a small gulp project setup. It's very declarative and if I spent a little more effort could probably mostly eliminate. It has most of my preferred tools in it, including dev server setup, statically generated Pug templates, Babel, Rollup with tree shaking, and documentation generation. I've found it's also great for keeping my project setup clean. Most of my project dependencies end up being dev dependencies for build process, and there are a lot of them. This simplifies down to one.
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#9I've been doing something like this for a while. I have my entire build process as a project on NPM itself. I just have to import it into my projects and write a small gulp project setup. It's very declarative and if I spent a little more effort could probably mostly eliminate. It has most of my preferred tools in it, including dev server setup, statically generated Pug templates, Babel, Rollup with tree shaking, and…
is it open? Would be interesting to use it.
Re: Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development
#10But how is it different from create-react-app tool that is supported by the react guys themselves? Sure it has setup for nodejs too. But I don't see people using this to quick start nodejs apps.