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Flippant.js - A mini JS and CSS library for flipping things over

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Re: Flippant.js - A mini JS and CSS library for flipping things over

#13

Full flippant source is 79 lines: https://github.com/mintchaos/flippant.js/blob/master/flippan... Call me old-fashioned but I prefer not to use these "mini JS and CSS" libraries for every little thing I do. Any competent JS/HTML developer be able to implement something like this using CSS3 transitions in an hour. Too many developers just paste libraries together these days.

Why spend time re-inventing the wheel? If you're looking to sharpen your skills, then go for it. I believe most people would prefer to get their product out the door as quickly as it's reasonable.

Re: Flippant.js - A mini JS and CSS library for flipping things over

#17
post #13

Full flippant source is 79 lines: https://github.com/mintchaos/flippant.js/blob/master/flippan... Call me old-fashioned but I prefer not to use these "mini JS and CSS" libraries for every little thing I do. Any competent JS/HTML developer be able to implement something like this using CSS3 transitions in an hour. Too many developers just paste libraries together these days.

Why spend time re-inventing the wheel? If you're looking to sharpen your skills, then go for it. I believe most people would prefer to get their product out the door as quickly as it's reasonable.

Agreed, results are important but you're taking a chance trusting any library Joe Programmer created in a couple of hours. I think it's a form of Cargo cult programming.

Re: Flippant.js - A mini JS and CSS library for flipping things over

#19

Full flippant source is 79 lines: https://github.com/mintchaos/flippant.js/blob/master/flippan... Call me old-fashioned but I prefer not to use these "mini JS and CSS" libraries for every little thing I do. Any competent JS/HTML developer be able to implement something like this using CSS3 transitions in an hour. Too many developers just paste libraries together these days.

Hour is a long time when you can use libraries to do stuff like this in a manner of minutes.

Re: Flippant.js - A mini JS and CSS library for flipping things over

#20

Full flippant source is 79 lines: https://github.com/mintchaos/flippant.js/blob/master/flippan... Call me old-fashioned but I prefer not to use these "mini JS and CSS" libraries for every little thing I do. Any competent JS/HTML developer be able to implement something like this using CSS3 transitions in an hour. Too many developers just paste libraries together these days.

If I'm paying my dev $100k/year, I'd rather spend that $48/hour doing something else.
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