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Re: React.js koans

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The setup doesn't appear to be working from a windows/mingw32 environment. (Most npm installers do work in this environment.)

Did you try submitting an issue on GitHub? https://github.com/arkency/reactjs_koans/issues

I just did submit it by my own. Sorry for that hassle.

If you have more detailed error information, I would be glad if you put them into the comments.

https://github.com/arkency/reactjs_koans/issues/9

Re: React.js koans

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post #7

I was expecting something very different from the word "koans". IMO, "React.js exercises" would be a better title for the project.

"exercises" is not hip enough.

Re: React.js koans

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I decided to move from learning Angular+Ionic last night to going with React.js+React Native and found this good dump of information from Github https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-react Looking forward to trying this tutorial right now.

Just curious, why did you make the change? I've been building apps in Angular and Ionic for a bit now and haven't played with React yet.

Im Bootstrapping a start up this summer and it seems like in the long term it will be better to stay with just a JS code base and not having to worry about the Typescript Angular 2 transition.

This is my first serious app so I'm new to a lot of the backend architecture options. I have no experience with Devops so I was thinking about creating the first version with a parse backend then moving to a docker container on AWS when it would start saving me some money.

I guess the question I would put out to Hacker News is how would you suggest I estimate the technical debt this would shoulder me with later on and would it be better to integrate with AWS now? I have a small amount of funding, about 2500$ and 100% free time before I go back to college this September.

Re: React.js koans

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just curious, why did you make the change? I've been building apps in Angular and Ionic for a bit now and haven't played with React yet.

Im Bootstrapping a start up this summer and it seems like in the long term it will be better to stay with just a JS code base and not having to worry about the Typescript Angular 2 transition. This is my first serious app so I'm new to a lot of the backend architecture options. I have no experience with Devops so I was thinking about creating the first version with a parse backend then moving to a docker container on…

It's not technical debt that will kill your nascent startup, but failing to achieve product-market fit. Don't worry about the technology choices. Get something done that you can put in front of potential customers.

Re: React.js koans

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post #7

I was expecting something very different from the word "koans". IMO, "React.js exercises" would be a better title for the project.

I believe the word they were looking for is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata

Hmmm.... googling around, there seems to be a lot of recent "programming koans" that are actually collections of rote exercises rather than lessons in zen enlightenment. Frustrating...

It looks like what happened was that a while back, someone made a very nice set of exercises each presented as a koan and a failing unit test to "meditate upon". Imitators then watered that down to exercises presented as failing unit tests to "meditate upon". Which was later watered down to just exercises...

For a classic example of an actual programming koan, I can only refer to the archive of Doug Bagely's "Functional Programming Koans, in OCaml" http://web.archive.org/web/20041012103936/http://www.bagley.... and, the old favorite teaching the relationship between objects and closures http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...

Re: React.js koans

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I was expecting something about a monk who had to report to two masters at the same time; but as he reported, the state changed, so they were never synced.

These are not the koans I was looking for.

Re: React.js koans

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post #7

I was expecting something very different from the word "koans". IMO, "React.js exercises" would be a better title for the project.

I believe the word they were looking for is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata Hmmm.... googling around, there seems to be a lot of recent "programming koans" that are actually collections of rote exercises rather than lessons in zen enlightenment. Frustrating... It looks like what happened was that a while back, someone made a very nice set of exercises each presented as a koan and a failing unit test to "meditate u…

If this is the case, we should appeal to the author's sense of decency.

The concept of 'koan' is far too unique and beautiful to be watered down.

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