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christianalfoni
Personal blog · christianalfoni.github.ioprogrammingweb
christianalfoni is a personal blog at christianalfoni.github.io about programming and web. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Plant a Baobab tree in your flux application”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on JavaScript and React state management, such as Baobab's data tree and React context patterns. One commenter cites a post by the author as the example that helped them start using Baobab.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Plant a Baobab tree in your flux application2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-04
What Hacker News says?
I'm all for uni-directional data flow and React's concept of being explicit by passing data down through props. When it comes to application state however, that's when I whip out React's context (now documented https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/context.html ). I follow the pattern of Redux/Baobab of having a monolithic state and partitioning it by module namespace (to avoid data dependency issues, e.g. Flux's wa…
Comment linking /javascript/2015/02/06/plant-a-baobab-tree-in-your-flux-application.html
on “React/JavaScript fatigue”Submitted Plant a Baobab tree in your flux application as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI found Baobab to be really helpful by letting me focus on the application logic, rather than implementing 1000 things to conform to a pattern. I'm not saying that Flux is unnecessary, but I think it can be improved and this is a nice direction, which conforms to the basic idea, if I get it right. A blog post[1] from Christian Alfoni with some examples helped me get started with it. The tree becomes a nice summary o…
Comment linking /javascript/2015/03/01/true-isomorphic-apps-with-react-and-baobab.html
on “Baobab: A JavaScript data tree supporting Om-style cursors, with React mixins”Submitted Think twice about JavaScript Classes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted React Webpack cookbook as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted React JavaScript and a browserify workflow as a story · 1 points
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