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Re: 2017 JavaScript Rising Stars

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Somewhat predictably, the (static, non-interactive) page took about 30 seconds to load, thanks to all the Javascript.

JS makes up about 300 of the site's 950kB weight. How does it alone contribute to a 30 second load time for you?

It is a bit much, but this article is pretty heavy for a 250kbps connection even with just html and images.

Re: 2017 JavaScript Rising Stars

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It’s a bit unfortunate that Elm will always be left out of lists like this.

Yes it’s a different language that compiles to JavaScript, but unlike other languages that do this, Elm exists solely to excel at front-end web development.

Ironically, that Redux and React equivalents are some of the “batteries included” in Elm can make it harder to pitch because at first it seems like you’d have to add that stuff in.

Re: 2017 JavaScript Rising Stars

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Somewhat predictably, the (static, non-interactive) page took about 30 seconds to load, thanks to all the Javascript.

Are you sure it wasn't just all the images? There's quite a lot of them. Also you can click on each project to show more info, so it's somewhat interactive.

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post #7

Somewhat predictably, the (static, non-interactive) page took about 30 seconds to load, thanks to all the Javascript.

You're the 2692389284th person writing this comment on HN and frankly it gets a bit tiring.

Tried to upvote but javascript paywall

Re: 2017 JavaScript Rising Stars

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post #10

I actually find this very informative, it gives a good overview of the js landscape right now. I'm however perplexed as to why the back button doesn't work, which makes navigation really hard particularly annoying on android mobile as pressing back ends up closing the browser. It uses react, so I thought that was pretty much supported out of the box. Any idea?

Where is the category for Angular ecosystem?

Re: 2017 JavaScript Rising Stars

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First I'd heard of dva [1] (#6 in the frameworks section), interesting that it eases use of redux-saga as well as the usual abstractions over redux. redux-saga has been something I've avoided after initial evaluation (I also avoid redux unless absolutely necessary), but might take a second look with this. Hope the project gets some more English translations!

https://github.com/dvajs/dva/issues/1#issuecomment-334334184

Re: 2017 JavaScript Rising Stars

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Why is Polymer left out of frameworks top 10? It has 18k stars and should be No. 3... https://github.com/polymer/polymer https://risingstars.js.org/2017/en/#section-framework

As it is ranked based on new stars in 2017, not total amount of stars.

Re: 2017 JavaScript Rising Stars

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post #2

We've had some questions on how libraries were selected. Basically, they were manually added and tagged on http://bestof.js.org , and we then reused the data to build the Rising Stars rankings. So if you see a library missing, it could be because we didn't know about it and didn't add it to the database, or maybe tagged it in a way that excluded it from a specific category. Feedback welcome!

Hey Sacha, we both spoke at NordicJS where we met. You mentioned your survey found a bunch of stats on my library's growth, and I know it has gone up by +3K in 2017 (total of 7K+ now), yet it seems unfortunately left out because gun isn't "tagged" as anything more than a database, not even a NodeJS framework (when it is, at least as much as Feathers is).

30+ projects were highlighted with less than 3K+ increase in stars, so it is just frustrating/disheartening to see mine left out. :/ Any chance there could be a "Everything Else" category or adding "NodeJS Framework" as a tag to us?

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