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ÆFLASH
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ÆFLASH is a personal blog at aeflash.com about programming and web. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “React Tips and Best Practices”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Async.js is nearing its official 2.0.0 release. The biggest new feature (and frequently requested feature) is modularization. Async has grown significantly from its initial release of 20 or so methods to a large library of over 70 functions that make...
Most-linked posts?
- React Tips and Best Practices3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-02-23
- Avoid forEach2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-03
What Hacker News says?
Some great ideas, especially the examples of breaking down UI into smaller components. Thanks for writing this. I've been using Flux to manage pretty much all of the application state, and pass it to the top-level component and down through the tree of components as props. This idea was very well described in an older article[0]. I would add that this approach makes shouldComponentUpdate very important, since more o…
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on “Best practices for building large React applications”Submitted React Tips and Best Practices as a story · 253 points
HN discussionThe way I talk about is is that the value you deliver as a software "engineer" is: taste and good guesses. Anyone can bang out code given enough time. Anyone can read docs on how to implement an algorithm and implement it eventually. The way you deliver value is by having a feel for the service and good instincts about where to look first and how to approach problems. The only way to develop that taste and familiari…
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on “The Learning Loop and LLMs”Submitted A Year with Browserify as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Functional Javascript as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted ReactJS best practices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoid forEach as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Javascript Module Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoid forEach as a story · 1 points
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