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Ben Ilegbodu
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Ben Ilegbodu's personal blog at benmvp.com covers programming and web. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The comments touch on React 16 changes and resources for understanding them, and on the naming history of JavaScript. Neither comment judges the blog's writing directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ben Ilegbodu uses his many years of frontend development experience to provide quality content to help you become a better frontend engineer.
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, the React team takes backwards compatibility very seriously. They did finally drop some deprecated methods from the main package in React 16, but made them available as separate packages, and even wrote codemods to automatically replace usages. I can recommend several resources for understanding the changes in React 16: - Lin Clark's fantastic ReactConf presentation on "A Cartoon Intro to Fiber": https://youtu…
Comment linking /slides/2017/reactboston/fiber.html
on “Show HN: Nerv – A fast React alternative, compatible with IE8 and React 16”Submitted 20 reasons to drop IE8 like it's hot as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNo you can't. Originally it was called Mocha and went through a series of name changes and branding before Netscape acquired a trademark license from Sun Microsystem and settled on Javascript. > JavaScript was created in May 1995 by Brendan Eich while at Netscape, reportedly in only 10 days. It was originally named Mocha, a name chosen by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, but was renamed four months later to LiveScr…
Comment linking /learning-es6-history-of-ecmascript/
on “Can we start calling JavaScript EcmaScript?”Submitted Learning ES6: Enhanced object literals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ES6 Map vs. Vanilla JavaScript Object as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enhanced object literals in ECMAScript 6 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deep dive into ES6 arrow functions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polymorphic React Components in TypeScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asynchronous Testing with Enzyme and React in Jest as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ES6 Generators as Iterators as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deep dive into ES6 Classes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted All about the new for-of loop in ES6 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Promises in ECMAScript 6 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning ES6: Template literals and tagged templates as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Default values, rest params and spread operator in ES6 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning ES6: Destructuring as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Block-level scoping in ES6 with let and const as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A detailed history of ECMAScript as a story · 1 points
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