spicyj

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by spicyj 8y ago
I manage the React team at Facebook. Only a couple of us have been on the team since before Dan, and I don’t think anyone resents his public persona. Quite to the contrary – Dan does a great job representing us. :)
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by spicyj 8y ago
At Facebook most of our thousands of web devs use Nuclide for remote editing on a repo with hundreds of thousands (or millions) of files and it works as advertised. We don’t use NFS though; all the repo checkouts are on disk on the remote m
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by spicyj 8y ago
I don’t understand what requires a web view here. You should be able to do anything another app can do (especially if you’re willing to write some custom native code, which I assume you are if you’re considering full native).
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by spicyj 8y ago
Do you mean the big green button? You can usually click the first track to start playing in order.
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by spicyj 8y ago
Use Prettier and never look back.
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by spicyj 8y ago
Browser extension? I know Millenials to Snake People caused this at one point.
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by spicyj 8y ago
No. I work at Facebook, and we don’t block any sites except ones with malware.
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by spicyj 8y ago
React team here. I think this is largely true. We’re already working on tackling a lot of these rough edges; see a recent post I made to learn more: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2018/06/14
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by spicyj 8y ago
Yes, making the source easy to understand is definitely valuable (even if only for our own team's understanding). I believe Django's "functionality/(API surface)" quotient is still much lower than React's, whic
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by spicyj 8y ago
Thanks! * Links to source: I use these frequently in other libraries, but I don't think this would be as useful for React, because we tend to have just a few functions each with a complicated implementation (vs programming stdlibs or o
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by spicyj 8y ago
I work on React. We've worked really hard on our docs, so it would be helpful to know what you don't like about them so we can improve.
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by spicyj 8y ago
Likely yes.
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by spicyj 8y ago
Certainly there are downsides to any setup, but due to React Native's large ambitions I'm unsure if it could have ever been created by an independent community. There is a lot of work that goes into it and the abundant availabil
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by spicyj 8y ago
Yes, we'll likely support some form of this. It's important for controlled native components too (ex: text inputs).
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by spicyj 8y ago
Most of the code is in the repo in React/Fabric/ and ReactCommon/fabric/ but unfortunately it's not runnable yet due to some missing dependencies that aren't currently in the open source repo.
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by spicyj 8y ago
This is a pretty unrealistic view of how big companies work. Engineers aren't fungible, and no one has been "pulled off" of React or React Native to anything like you suggest. React is my full time job (I was also the #1 comm
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by spicyj 8y ago
Your plan of sharing business logic sounds good. We don't currently have any recommended way to share code between web and iOS/Android, although I'm hopeful we will at some point in the future.
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by spicyj 8y ago
It's not unheard of to have "sponsored" issues. In this case though, none of the commenters on that thread work at Facebook. It doesn't mean the issue won't be fixed if no one sponsors it but if you care about it ge
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by spicyj 8y ago
No concrete plans, but I'd love to see it happen someday!
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by spicyj 8y ago
Hi! I'm the author. Let me know if you have questions that aren't covered in the post.
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by spicyj 8y ago
Wasn't really a response to either actually. :)
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by spicyj 8y ago
> I re-wrote my entire teaching syllabus for my programming course to use Vue instead of React, simply because it's much better to maintain Vue apps rather than React apps after 6 months, which is the most important value add for me
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by spicyj 8y ago
It’s not. They are both web-based but otherwise unrelated.
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by spicyj 8y ago
Agree that law enforcement is the best venue for this, but if you email me details (sophiebits at fb.com) I can forward it to an appropriate person in HR. I don't believe we have a public email address.
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by spicyj 8y ago
Perhaps this one: http://teslaclubsweden.se/test-drive-of-a-petrol-car/
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by spicyj 8y ago
What could we do better?
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by spicyj 8y ago
Curious what things make you reach for a state management library vs staying with React’s built-in state when splitting up components.
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by spicyj 8y ago
> I downloaded Facebook's data on me and found about 40 websites they said they had shared my profile with. Which section was this in the downloaded archive? I'm not aware of any situations which this would happen except using
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by spicyj 8y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by spicyj 8y ago
Most users can only set it as restrictive as "friends of friends", but if you have 10k+ followers or are verified then you can restrict it further.

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