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Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by gavmor »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #18

Are we trying to reinvent web development? Last few years have been wild. We abandoned HTML CSS and JS websites that used to work just fine and ran after frontend component frameworks and now the circle is getting completed by building tools and extensions we had 20 yrs ago

Nah, I went from jquery to Backbone, Angular, and React. I don't miss jquery, and I like the functional/declarative APIs of JSX. It's a lot like just writing HTML, and CSS, and I still write plenty of JS as pure functions or plain objects, and they're lovely to test.

I don't really see the purpose of the OP when I have vite and subsecond rerenders.

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by enraged_camel »

pjmlp wrote: post #98
evilduck wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> sprinkles of vanila.js work just fine. Bullshit. jQuery as a library didn't inherently cause spaghetti code, it was predominantly just used as a cross-browser selector function and some standard library augmentation/fixes before JS itself caught up. Sprinkles of progressive enhancement jQuery were exactly the problem that caused frameworks to be created. Sprinkles of vanilla JS lead to the exact same outcome, minus…

Whatever dude, we're doing ASP.NET MVC and Spring/Jakarta with vanilla.js just fine, go improve that CV.

How long have you guys been around? How large/old is the codebase? How many members are on your team?

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by asdf000333 »

zeroq wrote: post #7
whalesalad wrote: post #4

we've come full circle - macromedia dreamweaver had this in 2001

Wait till you hear about Typescript, you know adding types to ECMAScript, like Macromedia did some 20 years ago. :) Being in the industry for 20+ years and starting as a teenager making games in Flash it makes really hard for me to treat webdev seriously with all their revolutionary innovations. At work I often encounter a resistance to a tech or solution I propose, because "there hasen't been any substational contri…

I'm glad to have mostly avoided frontend dev, but we've also had some bonkers backend trends like SOAP. It was like closing your eyes and wishing for a full-stack impl to appear if you write enough XML.

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by asdf000333 »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #18

Are we trying to reinvent web development? Last few years have been wild. We abandoned HTML CSS and JS websites that used to work just fine and ran after frontend component frameworks and now the circle is getting completed by building tools and extensions we had 20 yrs ago

I'm not really a frontend dev, but React (w/ JSX, and w/o Redux or whatever) is the only web thing I've ever used that made sense. Everything else like CSS, Angular, and jquery made me go "wtf."

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by kak3a »

urin wrote: post #21
vivzkestrel wrote: post #18

Are we trying to reinvent web development? Last few years have been wild. We abandoned HTML CSS and JS websites that used to work just fine and ran after frontend component frameworks and now the circle is getting completed by building tools and extensions we had 20 yrs ago

There are complex reasons behind my development of this. To be honest, I don’t think the editing functionality of this tool is particularly useful. I believe the real-time preview and element selection features are the ones that offer broader utility. I am considering making the editing feature disabled by default and allowing it to be enabled through settings in the future.

Bring FrontPage back! ;)

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by anoncow »

jayflux wrote: post #62

Nice extension, it may be worth in the readme explaining how it’s different to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-livepreview which has been around for a long time and maintained by Microsoft.

I thought of MS Frontpage for a very brief moment as I was clicking the link to Live Preview.
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