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State of React and CSS(voice.kadira.io)
3 points by jed_watson 10y ago|0 comments
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by jed_watson 11y ago
I phrased it badly - I meant the modal scroll handling that was implemented hasn't worked out well, no red flags for React here. position: fixed is a more robust way of positioning modals, the current version watches the scroll event a
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by jed_watson 11y ago
Not sure if you saw my other comment below but this is a major goal for us with Elemental. We're not there today, because we're working through the best way to componentize the CSS for each module while retaining a common base for
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by jed_watson 11y ago
Thanks for pointing that out - webre using react-router and it works locally, not sure why hosting on github pages breaks it. Will check it out.
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by jed_watson 11y ago
It means we've borrowed the css directly from Bootstrap for the grid (as well as some variables and mixins) so, aside from giving credit, if you are familiar with the bootstrap grid it should be easy to get up and running with Elementa
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by jed_watson 11y ago
Elemental UI is a competitor, sort of, I guess. But it's not a zero-sum game, and we've learned (and borrowed) a lot from Bootstrap. More specifically, we're not porting Bootstrap to React but building React-specific componen
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by jed_watson 11y ago
Thanks! We're porting their grid system manually at the moment, the foundations don't really change much and we're quite selective about what's being ported. We're actually experimenting with deprecating access to c
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by jed_watson 11y ago
Thanks! that's really great to hear.
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Slack and OSS Communities(medium.com)
11 points by jed_watson 11y ago|1 comments
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Good list of people to follow while you're learning React(medium.com)
4 points by jed_watson 11y ago|0 comments
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Making the Case for Progressive JavaScript (vs. Isomorphic JavaScript)(medium.com)
8 points by jed_watson 12y ago|0 comments
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by jed_watson 12y ago
Have you heard Pete Hunt's angle on "Separation of Concerns" vs. "Separation of Technologies"? imo JSX doesn't fall into this trap, it just looks like it should. His JSConf EU talk is worth a watch if you'
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by jed_watson 12y ago
I'm not familiar with the benefits of HostGator but how is this better than spinning up a free Heroku dyno to serve your node.js app? That's also a very effective solution for low-traffic sites with a modest amount of host-side pr
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by jed_watson 12y ago
Yes - we've already got it working with iOS and android using Cordova, Windows should be straight-forward as well. There's a Cordova project that builds for iOS in the sample project if you're interested.
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by jed_watson 12y ago
We won't be limiting the look to iOS 8, we just started there because it's the platform we're developing some commercial apps for using TouchstoneJS at the moment. At least two of them will end up on Android as well, so we&#x
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by jed_watson 12y ago
Cheers! We're fans of Ionic ourselves (and use their excellent icon library) I think the biggest differentiating factor between it and TouchstoneJS will be the platforms they're built on. Ionic's heavily invested in Angular,
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by jed_watson 12y ago
Thanks! We're stoked with the great feedback this is getting. We will have more docs + examples up in the coming weeks, aside from that we're currently using it in three commercial apps at Thinkmill so what's there is pretty
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by jed_watson 12y ago
It is, and the source for the demo is here: https://github.com/Thinkmill/touchstone-starter
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by jed_watson 12y ago
Thanks for letting me know. We haven't had a chance to test yet on a wide range of Android browsers, but it shouldn't be like that. If you could open an issue on the GitHub project ( http://github.com/JedWatson&#x2F
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by jed_watson 12y ago
Nope, I think you're spot on.
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by jed_watson 12y ago
You need a lot more control over how the views transition, pass state, etc. in order to create a native-feeling app. The paradigm of links and parameters falls short, and eventually TouchstoneJS will exert a lot more control over the transi
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by jed_watson 12y ago
The app framework is structured as a React mixin, everything else (lists, form controls, etc) is just React Components you can drop into your app. So for the most part how you structure your app is up to you (except for the scaffolding nece
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by jed_watson 12y ago
Thanks! we're putting a lot of detail into the animations to make it feel as native as possible. The touch events too - you'll notice that if you touch a link, and move too far away, it'll un-hilight; then if you move back it
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Show HN: TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps(touchstonejs.io)
92 points by jed_watson 12y ago|27 comments
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by jed_watson 12y ago
I was just thinking a similar thing. If user agents have evolved to effectively become a way of saying "Our browser supports standards X" (where X is an awkward grouping based on which features vendors and browser versions origina
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Select or Die – a jQuery Select plugin(vst.mn)
1 points by jed_watson 12y ago|0 comments
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KeystoneJS – an open source Node.js cms / web app platform built on express(keystonejs.com)
1 points by jed_watson 13y ago|2 comments
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by jed_watson 13y ago
I run a web development company in Sydney called Thinkmill ( http://www.thinkmill.com.au ). We use Node.js for everything we do, from mobile app backends to websites to web apps. We've been using it for nearly two years, and
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by jed_watson 13y ago
Honestly, I see very few thought-out or backed-up arguments here. The server-level blocking, the unacknowledged writes, silly defaults, etc are not only old news but have been behind mongodb for a while. You also get comments like 'it
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by jed_watson 13y ago
There's also a demo online at http://demo.keystonejs.com - it's very simple but you get the idea of how to structure an app, the source code is on github. If you want to check out the admin ui, you can sign in to the d

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