lsalvatore

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by lsalvatore 4y ago
We wrote enterprise applications with jQuery and Backbone. It didn't scale. React fixed everything. There is no post-React. I'm not "technology-agnostic"- I only use React, and will only work for companies that use React
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by lsalvatore 4y ago
Hey actually React has nothing to do with Megacorp at all. We adopted React in 2015 on a small team (less than 10 engineers) as did many other small startups at that time. The decision to use React on a small team is the same as it would be
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by lsalvatore 4y ago
No, the career growth happened in 2015 when we adopted React and stopped endlessly inserting JS and CSS tags from jQuery plugins. Backbone made things worse. Angular made things worse. React objectively changed my life and allowed me to wor
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by lsalvatore 4y ago
> the monstrosity it turned into Literally what? React is responsible for infinitely scaling frontend features and career growth I never could have imagined.
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
Bingo. Smart people understand the domain of interview questions (which we know is contrived) and typically can study enough to implement the solutions. It's not always about getting the question right- it's about demonstrating yo
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
can I get a quick rundown of these guys?
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
React, Redux, styled-components.
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
Sure, book a free call with me here: react.school/call
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
Software engineers that replace things with functionally equivalent things don't get a lot of actual work done and typically aren't employed for very long either. So, the churn had to stop long ago from inside the average high per
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
The prevailing view here is that JavaScript is a nightmare to develop with when in fact, there is actually a bit of a golden age going on right now. It's never been more stable and fun to build apps on the web. Maybe I'll write a
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
Oh, it's this thread again. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29552322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23228904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26740593 https:/&#x2F
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
Yes, functionality would require skills, and skills require opinionated tools. Opinions require taking a stance, and that's the last thing anyone here wants to do.
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
You didn't need TypeScript. That was your first mistake. If you had chosen Create-react-app (the official boilerplate) - that's all you need. Hello world right out of the box. Nothing blows up in your face. Nothing mind-boggling.
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
JavaScript framework churn (on the frontend) ended 6 years ago. The only thing keeping this meme going is commenters on HN.
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
Yes I totally understand your point of view. I spent almost a decade paying off a six figure debt for my CS degree. The funniest part? I learned almost nothing about web development in school. No marketable skills that would have really hel
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
I'm saddened that we're comparing a degree in CS to a subscription to Codecademy. I am curious if you've gotten a degree yourself, and whether that degree was from a reputable school. My CS degree is one of my proudest and mo
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
Thanks for the explanation, this makes me profoundly sad and is completely absurd. They call it "minting" which I actually thought was a neat way of putting the image itself on chain which can't be deleted and is permanent, s
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
This surely can't be true for the typical image-based NFTs? I thought the entire point is that the full JPEG is embedded in the blockchain, thus not being dependent on any image hosting service.
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
I wrote jQuery in production for 5 years and then switched to React for 6 years in production at a half dozen companies. In my opinion, nothing can be improved further. I love writing React, it solves every problem you can think of and scal
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
You don't need to write a bunch of JS, that's why JavaScript frameworks like React exist to make this easy. JavaScript is the only client-side scripting language on the browser that you can use to manipulate the DOM. If you want t
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
JavaScript is the only language browsers will run. It's not gatekeeping to suggest that you have to learn and use JavaScript frameworks if you want to build web applications- it's a fact.
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
There is no "pain" managing large React / Redux applications for experienced frontend software engineers. If you don't want to write JavaScript, you probably shouldn't be building interactive applications for the we
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
I come from a financial reporting background where pages needed to be dynamic and update through filters / sorting / etc- think Excel or Robinhood- these are applications, not pages. When you are building an application, users don
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
I can't relate to this at all. I've been happily working on SPAs with React and Redux for nearly 6 years. Hotwire makes no sense: switching to managing client-side state on the server and sending HTML over the wire introduces a to
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
This is like saying "most products don't work". It's totally subjective. Blatant lies usually aren't tolerated in ad networks. I'm talking about "it's the hottest summer on record, therefore you may c
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
Most instagram ads are more entertaining and insightful than this article. Advertising is actually about educating the consumer for many products, and I think we're moving more toward personal ads that don't feel like ads. Sometim
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by lsalvatore 5y ago
Tim recently addressed this exact argument with "my books are not for everyone". He's not saying everyone on Earth should have a 4 hour work week.
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by lsalvatore 6y ago
This is as ridiculous as saying "Stop watching videos". Everyone's online courses and video content is completely different and unique to their level of experience. Most online courses hold your hand through building a projec
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by lsalvatore 6y ago
Well the footage of his death was "accidentally" erased. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51053205
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by lsalvatore 6y ago
Right, because there is nothing suspicious at all about how the camera footage mysteriously disappeared on the night he died.

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