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Leaders Are Tool Builders: Why I Wrote My Own JavaScript UI Framework

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Re: Leaders Are Tool Builders: Why I Wrote My Own JavaScript UI Framework

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Post by csomar »

The author is getting a bit of heat, and I think rightfully so. Here is the "tool" he's all bragging about: https://github.com/kennyfrc/cami.js/blob/master/src/cami.js

The whole thing is 250 Loc half of which is comments. And not to discount on that (Redux itself is not that big, though the ecosystem is). But this tool/project could be just a few blog posts where the author explains the patterns/libraries he is using.

It also doesn't help that his blog post/tool has the highest concentration of buzzword language you can expect. Please don't do that.

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Post by kugelblitz »

“For non-technical folks, Cami.js is a code library that aims to maximize developer productivity - providing the power of Meta's React.js with the simplicity of lightweight libraries like jQuery. I wanted a framework with React's capabilities without all the complexity.”

I don’t think non-people will understand this. Seems to be aimed at that product owner, who has done some hobby programming for 2 months and keeps up with the buzz words so to be able to say “hey, I’m like one of you devs!”

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Post by eatonphil »

Many of us who like to learn software internals have built a JavaScript framework once or twice. And for that spirit of digging into how things work, I applaud the author! Maybe in time they'll be digging into how compilers and web browsers work.

I can't explain why exactly I think it's hubris to introduce this at your workplace, but I at least wanted to cheer on the effort to learn how things work under the hood.

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Post by _heimdall »

I wonder if the author really meant thought leaders, not just leaders.

At least in the web dev space, framework and tool authors are often looked to as thought leaders.

There's definitely something to be said for an opinion after taking action and learning the lessons of building a framework, but it does set a perverse incentive to build yet another framework if you want your opinion to be heard.

Re: Leaders Are Tool Builders: Why I Wrote My Own JavaScript UI Framework

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Post by endemic »

_heimdall wrote: post #15

I wonder if the author really meant thought leaders, not just leaders. At least in the web dev space, framework and tool authors are often looked to as thought leaders. There's definitely something to be said for an opinion after taking action and learning the lessons of building a framework, but it does set a perverse incentive to build yet another framework if you want your opinion to be heard.

Right, kind of a “put up or shut up” sort of thing. Easier to listen to/take seriously someone who has actually written the code.

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Post by [deleted] »

MrVandemar wrote: post #3

"Leaders are tool builders" reads like someone trying to convince themselves of their own marketing hype. It's a generalisation that certainly doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Martin Luther King, for example, was a leader, and he's not known for his tool-crafting prowess. Some leaders create tools. Some people who aren't, or wouldn't consider themselves to be leaders, make tools.

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