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Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

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Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

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"Firebase’s core product is a real-time database service. This means that your users do not need to refresh a page to see updates to the state of the application and it"

"Once you have your Firebase project, provision a “Cloud Firestore” database"

Cloud Firestore is a traditional NoSQL DB and is not the realtime database product.

Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

#13
post #6

I love how ant design invents a new 'design language' and then it turns out to be yet another bootstrap. I wish we'd get a real revolutionary design system instead of these frameworks that try solve all cases, and ultimately end up so generic you can't use them for anything -other- than prototyping

Bootstrap doesn't event define a design language.

I'm glad that there's a good UI lib that integrates with React at this level.

Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

#14
from the ant front page: "A design system with values of Nature and Determinacy for better user experience of enterprise applications"

This looks like someone spent a ton of time building something that is probably very useful. So, with all due respect, what the fuck does that even mean?

Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

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post #14

from the ant front page: "A design system with values of Nature and Determinacy for better user experience of enterprise applications" This looks like someone spent a ton of time building something that is probably very useful. So, with all due respect, what the fuck does that even mean?

enterprise.

In all seriousness, this is the crap that many company types buy. What they won't be is an easy and straightforward explanation of what it actually is. You want extra points in a meeting? Just tell them you're integrating that quote for increased utilization of all structured experience parameters. 99.4% utilization. And you think next quarter you can get that up to 99.6% — and of course, something about how it's free. They already know they don't fully understand, and they don't want to be reminded. what they want is to feel they're speaking the same language. It's crap, but its necessary in industries that aren't necessarily that involved in the tech or design.

Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

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post #14

from the ant front page: "A design system with values of Nature and Determinacy for better user experience of enterprise applications" This looks like someone spent a ton of time building something that is probably very useful. So, with all due respect, what the fuck does that even mean?

This is alibaba's react component framework. It's extremely high quality, but unfortunately most the english is translated from Chinese, so awkward grammar is abound. I suggest looking past that.

Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

#18
I still can't believe everyone has accepted mixing logic and presentation is a good idea. Html mixed with javascript is a mess and I can only imagine what a "mature" React app looks like after a few years of iteration. I can't wait for the "React turns out to be a shit idea" posts in a year or two just like we're seeing with microservices. It's like a mass hallucination or something. Maybe Facebook had Cambridge Analytica help them market React or something. At least that would explain the brainwashing.

Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

#19

I think the tutorial would be more complete if the example showed some basic security rules. Even if it's a prototype, there is the chance that a joker will delete all your test data live during a demo.

Thanks for the feedback. I’ve been thinking about writing a guide on deploying Firebase apps to production, I can include it there.

Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

#20

In this mix I'd swap in Rekit ( http://rekit.js.org/ ) instead of plain create-react-app as it adds Redux with lots of timesaving functionality built into an included editor.

This looks neat. I’ll take a look, thanks!
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