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Fancy Pixel
Company blog · fancypixel.github.io/blogprogramming
Fancy Pixel is the company blog at fancypixel.github.io, writing about programming. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “React and Flux Backed by Rails API”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
24 Nov 2015 Moving to WatchOS 2 A while ago we released Gulps on the AppStore. Gulps is a simple water tracking app that also reminds you when to …
Most-linked posts?
- React and Flux Backed by Rails API3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-02-02
What Hacker News says?
Don't people realize that returning HTML instead of JSON will solve their problem for 80% of the use cases? Looking at Relay/GraphQL, the whole picture appears as a gigantic layer of indirection to generate a DOM tree, something you could do serverside 10 layers below. Even 'Components' are just fragments of HTML, retrieving them in the format you want from the server is much easier. And be honest, replacing a fragm…
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on “Introduction to Facebook's Flux architecture”Submitted React and Flux Backed by Rails API as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's always nice to read a writeup on Flux. I would love to hear more about possible isomorphic implementation of the architecture though. Right now besides Fluxible the architecture doesn't play well with server side rendering. By the way, shameless plug, I wrote an article on Flux (backed by a Rails API) a while ago, if you're interested on the matter: http://fancypixel.github.io/blog/2015/01/28/react-plus-flux-...
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on “Introduction to Facebook's Flux architecture”Submitted Show HN: Share Data Between WatchKit and Your App with Realm as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWay faster. We are using a rails API and a React+Flux app as a front end. The whole setup time alone is a considerable pain. I feel that the JS tooling is still too fragmented and sometimes messy, but I'm probably biased by years of rails and iOS development. Writing the app takes more time since you need to write everything from the ground up (e.g.: no Devise views to just style and forget), but I really hope that…
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on “Lessons I learned while creating my SaaS with Rails”Submitted React + Flux Backed by Rails API – Part 1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing with UIDynamics in iOS 9 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted APIs with Rails: render json: :the_simple_way as a story · 1 points
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