bespoken's comments

Wow, relax man! You don't have to defend redux with your life!

I have to work on a daily base with redux because almost every stupid company is using that nowadays. Some codebases are so horrific that I simply quit the job and find something better.

I actually said why it is poor in design: endless switch statements with reducers, do you think that is great design? Every component that wants to use a store needs to 'connect' to it with a higher order component, ever seen chains of hoc's and still know what's going on? Then you need to write time and time again mapStateToProps and mapDispatchToProps. Do you think that's great design? Even if there would be no other state management system yet, it still sucks. Even Dan Abramov says you probably don't need redux, still everyone is using it for the most simple apps.

You might want to use a router, well you're kinda locked into redux so you need redux-router. Example from the redux-router repo:

   import React from 'react';
   import { combineReducers, applyMiddleware, compose, createStore } from 'redux';
   import { reduxReactRouter, routerStateReducer, ReduxRouter } from 'redux-router';
   import { createHistory } from 'history';
   import { Route } from 'react-router';

This, for just wanting to use a fucking router that works along with my store! You think that is great design? React is great design IMHO, not redux. Dan Abramov is a great guy, highly talented, times more intelligent than I am, but his design principles are really poor. Same counts for hooks, a fun experiment for a counter demo, but poor design for larger apps. I hope it will never become a hype too.

Redux is just one of the many flux implementations. Not the best, but a flavour that you may like or dislike. Unstated is a client store that is a wrapper around the new React Context API: unstated: https://github.com/jamiebuilds/unstated

Here we go again, not using redux makes you a noob developer.. So in your mind it's redux vs spaghetti? No other options, ever?

No, not right. I have work on a daily base with redux unfortunately. Redux is not too hard, but it's poor in design. Also you will have to give up redux soon, the hype is over and better things are at the horizon.

There is definitely some pride in dev's working with redux, once they understand it they feel like they've grown as a developer. Do you really think redux is the holy grail of stores? If you're really smart enough to understand it, think a little deeper about the design, it really sucks.

Try unstated, or is that too simple for you? Do you maybe like a lot of boilerplate and magic that took you a year to grok so you can now show off to others what wizardry you're capable off?

> - Do not use redux until you know React well. You might not need it.

Indeed, I would say not using redux at all. I never understood why redux has become so popular, IMAO it's such poor design. It forces you to use switch statements, reducers, mapStateToProps(why?), etc.. Tons of boilerplate in order to set 1 single variable. Not talking about how to put data from the backend into the store in a SSR app..

I'm now using "unstated" for client store. What a breeze of fresh air!

First, there is no guarantee that a backend and frontend developer together perform better than 1 full stack developer. It really depends on who's doing the job. I'm a full stack JS developer, and yes I can do pretty awesome CSS if needed, or is that considered to be impossible?

Btw, how would the author go about building a nodejs SSR React application? 1 backend, 1 frontend and 1 HTML/CSS guru? I've actually never seen that, even in large companies.

I see there is some frustration about CSS in JS while writing in object notation is not any more difficult than CSS or SCSS, my 12 year old daughter would learn that in a snap. I can imagine it is frustrating for people that are good in HTML and CSS that there is not much work if you cannot actually code, but that doesn't mean there is a problem with full stack.

My current job is removing bootstrap from a universal React codebase. What a pile of crap.. But yeah, it keeps me busy!

Python almost became my main language, but I moved to another language when I saw it was stuck at 2.7. Another reason was the lambda's only allowing 1 line instead of the flexible closures in so many other languages. And my expectations for future improvements were very low as the core maintainer looked quite stubborn to me.

This should not be a discussion about Australia or any government in particular. The discussion should be about the importance of not supporting closed source.

I believe in open-source. This just proves once again that closed source cannot be trusted. I would never use 1Password or any of it's variants. It still amazes me that so many people are sending their most precious secrets to a commercial companies' cloud server.

I only use Keepass open source password manager, every day for over 9 years now, and I'm really thankful to the devs that build and maintain this nice piece of software.

I'd prefer React even more now with the promising Hooks. I would not easily let a random person here choose for me with all his/her opinions. It really depends on what you want to do with either library.

For work/income I'd choose React as there seem to be more jobs for that. Also in the long term it feels like a pretty solid choice. React has a very big and active community, an outstanding development team, and so many codebases in the world are build on it. React will linger on for quite a while I dare to guess.

IMHO it is not really a React vs Vue thing, you could also go for Ember or Angular. Just pick the one that feels and works good for you and fulfils your personal needs we cannot assess.

And how would you assess the skills of a technical founder when you're not technical yourself? IMAO luck is the factor here.

> they might disappear with a halfway done job

So? At least that is possible with a freelancer, not with technical founder who has a generous share but fails to render good results.

I like the idea. Only the (very few) available books require even in my own language a pretty advanced level. I would use this for sure if the reading level of the books available would be more for children so I can learn words and sentences that I can actually use and practice in daily life.

> Impostor syndrome

Does this refer to the company pretending they deserve better than you? I've seen enough incompetent people at companies declining good candidates because they are simply unable to recognise it. I've seen so many shitty companies pretending they are top tier, it's just the arrogance of power. Only once you're in you can see the flaws and mess it often actually is.

> Blockchain is also the driving force behind cryptocurrencies, allowing Bitcoin owners to purchase drugs on the internet without the hassle of showing their identity. So, if that sounds like you, then yes, you should consider using blockchain.

Oh my, this is soo opinionated and short sighted, it starts with complete rubbish, pointless read I guess.

I can't help not to trust telegram with my data, just gut feeling. You cannot use their service without giving your telephone nr. Now they like to have your ID's too. How can they honestly advertise "anonymus chat"? And the double ICO, over a billion fetched. So much money and data, where does that lead to?

> We use PCs, Macs,

Huh, Mac is not a PC?

> We believe in diversity, openness,

We know, with Windows 10 openness of your private data is a core feature

> Send a PR with any improvement to microsoft/join-dev-design

Short of ideas and creative people? Or just want it for free?