Create a character voting app using React, Node.js, MongoDB and Socket.io

Impressive and awesome. This is perfect to catch up on using build tools. I focus on core programming concepts in my own work, and at work most of that stuff is automated to just a few commands, so I appreciate the gulp.js part of your tutorial most. Thanks for the great work.

I think because we are living in the prehistoric era of modern webdev. Programming in assembler is much easier!

He provides his rational towards the bottom of the post:

> But do we really need a separate template for this? Why not just render everything inside the App component? Yes, you could do it, as long as you are okay with invalid HTML markup and not being able to include inline script tags like Google Analytics directly in the App component. But having said that, invalid markup is probably not relevant to SEO anymore and there are workarounds to include inline script tags in React components. So it's up to you, but for the purposes of this tutorial we will be using a Swig template.

Here's my unscientific LOC count results (that I did in 5 minutes).

I've removed node_modules and bower_components from the items in: https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/examples

I've also deleted "polymer" and "emberjs_require" since they didn't have any files in them and messes up the `wc -l`

    $ for x in *; do echo $x; wc -l `find $x/ -name '*js*' -type f | egrep -v 'test|lib|public|vendor|.bundle.js|.cache.js'`; echo; done

Results: http://pastebin.com/GqF0g3qF

Obviously one can improve the filtering to get more accurate results but you get the point. To make a TODO mvc you need at least 5+ different files and totalling a lot of lines. The fact that jQuery solution (which is very nice code, not the typical spaghetti) beats the majority of them in line count is pretty ironic.

Not a single one of those things are 'scripts' in the colloquial sense of the word