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Incredible amount of negative comments. It takes more time to type all that negativity out than it takes to read about what Vite is and what it does. Frontend dev here. Vite is amazing. It doesn't take long to get what it does if you try it out (you can avoid reading about it that way). I won't bother summarizing what it does, the website literally covers it. Reading really became superpower in this day and age.
It gave me a pause to think about how it came that I can never really tell what am I looking at anymore. Forget the HN title, which is stupid — what does this landing page tell me? Well, that it's… next gen, and it apparently can catch up with me, which is not much, since I'm not really catching up with what's going on anyway. Also, that it's "tooling". Like IDE, or framework, or maybe a chainsaw. Can't tell. "Gettin…
I only keep one foot in the webdev sphere as it's not my primary focus any more, but still - I feel that I should be able to 'get it'.
- ed : I should've read the comments first. Glad I'm not alone!
My studio is in a building that also does musical events and there are always posters up for various gigs and I so often have a similar complaint - they're 'designed' (as in, imho, poorly) by someone who's had their head buried in the thing they're promoting and forget that people slightly outside their context need a bit more of a nudge. There's one new one out there today that doesn't have any links to help define context, and the name of the artist is so generic as to be tricky to filter on a web search.
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Terrible landing page for an otherwise excellent tool. It sets up JS transpiling and bundling for you in an easy way, then provide a server with pretty fast hot reload. This solves 2 problems: - the complicated js project stack is now simple to setup, unlike with webpack - saving and seeing the result of your coding is now almost instant, unlike with CRA It's a joy to use, given that it's from VueJS author, and I hig…
> pretty fast hot reload An understatement to be sure: you can set VS Code to auto-save every 1 second and that way whatever you type instantly appears via Vite's Hot Reload in your dev browser. No waiting multiple seconds for a recompile. It's game-changing workflow (for some tasks).
And yes - I'm (mostly) kidding. But I did write my first programs on punched cards at a university course while I was still in grade school. Probably the last generation of programmers to experience that discipline.
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Devil's Advocate position here. I don't know much about carpentry, and if I look at a website selling saws, I will struggle to understand the difference between different models. Dumbing down to an extent that I understand (when I probably won't buy the product anyway) risks alienating the target market that will. Due to customer demands, end-user requirements, and device fragmentation, front-end development has genu…
Developer here. I think I can speak for everyone when I say that even when we work with the thing, we can't understand the homepage of the thing. For example at my $DAYJOB I know what we do but if I didn't the website wouldn't help me to understand.
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Terrible landing page for an otherwise excellent tool. It sets up JS transpiling and bundling for you in an easy way, then provide a server with pretty fast hot reload. This solves 2 problems: - the complicated js project stack is now simple to setup, unlike with webpack - saving and seeing the result of your coding is now almost instant, unlike with CRA It's a joy to use, given that it's from VueJS author, and I hig…
> pretty fast hot reload An understatement to be sure: you can set VS Code to auto-save every 1 second and that way whatever you type instantly appears via Vite's Hot Reload in your dev browser. No waiting multiple seconds for a recompile. It's game-changing workflow (for some tasks).
I'd say it's more beneficial for CSS styling but I usually mock up my changes in the dev inspector and then copy it over anyways.
Working with front end for 5+ years have nearly made me switch careers. There's an absolute onslaught of languages, frameworks, patterns and now also "tools" that never really work in you editor, and you never really grasp before moving on to the next thing. I think me and my team have spent 90% of our time working with tooling, and all creativity and joy has gone out the window - because you never become a master, a…
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Try flutter, its a breath of fresh air!
Does Flutter still render everything in a canvas? This has been a huge turn off for me.
Incredible amount of negative comments. It takes more time to type all that negativity out than it takes to read about what Vite is and what it does. Frontend dev here. Vite is amazing. It doesn't take long to get what it does if you try it out (you can avoid reading about it that way). I won't bother summarizing what it does, the website literally covers it. Reading really became superpower in this day and age.
Well, good criticism is not negativity, but I'd argue it is positivity.
Evan You did this after his vuejs work, it's kind of like Linus did git after his linux kernel work, well, on a smaller scale. Per Linus, he did git to approve that he is not an accidental one time genius.
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Terrible landing page for an otherwise excellent tool. It sets up JS transpiling and bundling for you in an easy way, then provide a server with pretty fast hot reload. This solves 2 problems: - the complicated js project stack is now simple to setup, unlike with webpack - saving and seeing the result of your coding is now almost instant, unlike with CRA It's a joy to use, given that it's from VueJS author, and I hig…
I have been using parcel for web development because I thought webpack is very difficult to use. However, for my latest personal project, I tried webpack. To my surprise, I found webpack 5 much simpler to use then I thought it is (significantly easier than make or gradle, the complexity is not even on the same level). Everything pretty much worked out of box now. All I had to do was to copy the starting template for…
I didn't really know how much time I could have been saving, and I never even thought of Webpack as slow.