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Gosha Spark
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Gosha Spark's personal blog at goshakkk.name covers programming and web. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 71 times, most often “5 practical tips to finally learn React in 2018”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Gosha Arinich's blog mainly for its series on forms in React, which covers controlled vs uncontrolled inputs, and for posts on event analytics. Commenters say the React forms articles go deeper than the official docs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- 5 practical tips to finally learn React in 20182 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-12
- Tracking events in analytics systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-23
- You don't need a tutorial for every-freaking-thing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-19
What Hacker News says?
I agree that both the React and Redux docs are good, although I'm biased - I wrote the Redux FAQ and "Structuring Reducers" sections for the Redux docs. That said, the official tutorials and reference sections can only cover so much info, and other articles often go into more detail. For example, the React docs discuss the idea of "controlled inputs", but Gosha Arinich's series of articles on React and forms [0] go…
Comment linking /on-forms-react/
on “Build Yourself a Redux”Submitted Making custom renderers for React as a story · 61 points
HN discussion> React's solution reads like a bad joke. Uh... what solution, and in what way? React doesn't use "two-way binding", at least not in the sense that other frameworks do. If you're talking about the idea of "controlled inputs", it fits with the rest of the React philosophy. Driving input values from state keeps the data flow predictable, and makes it easier to implement things like validation. I've got a number of art…
Comment linking /controlled-vs-uncontrolled-inputs-react/
on “2016 JavaScript Rising Stars”Submitted Offer HN: I'll work on interesting projects for free as a story · 55 points
HN discussionI can highly recommend Gosha Arinich's articles on working with forms in React: https://goshakkk.name/on-forms-react/
Comment linking /on-forms-react/
on “Learn React for free”Submitted Show HN: I just released Sleek, a Ruby gem for doing simple analytics as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK — remote. I am an application developer with primary focus on web application development. I'm strongly passionate about web standards and creating amazing experiences. I love working on prototypes & MVPs. I'd really like to turn your business idea into reality. Let's talk keywords: Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, Redis, HTML5, CSS3, Ember.js, Handlebars, jQuery, Node.js, CoffeeScript, WebSockets, Clojure, Heroku…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)”Submitted You don't need a tutorial for every-freaking-thing as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK — remote. Ruby, Rails, Ember.js, Redis, MongoDB. Web: http://goshakkk.name/projects.html GitHub: https://github.com/goshakkk Email: me@goshakkk.name
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013)”Submitted Show HN: Meklebar — Bitcoin escrow transaction helper as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK — remote. I am an application developer with primary focus on web application development. I'm strongly passionate about web standards and creating amazing experiences. I love working on prototypes & MVPs. I'd really like to turn your business idea into reality. Let's talk keywords: Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, Redis, HTML5, CSS3, Ember.js, Handlebars, jQuery, Node.js, CoffeeScript, WebSockets, Clojure, Heroku…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2013)”Submitted You don't need a tutorial for every-freaking-thing as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK — remote. Long-term and short-term projects. I develop full-featured web applications and back-ends for mobile apps. * Ruby, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Clojure, Python * HTML5/CSS3 * Ember.js, Backbone.js * MongoDB, Redis, Postgres * WebSockets/Pusher * Heroku https://github.com/goshakkk http://goshakkk.name/ Feel free to reach me out at me@goshakkk.name
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2013)”Submitted Should I put form state in Redux? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK — remote. Long-term and short-term projects. I develop full-featured web applications and back-ends for mobile apps. * Ruby, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Python * Rails, Django, Express.js * HTML5/CSS3 * Ember.js, Backbone.js * MongoDB, Redis, Postgres * WebSockets/Pusher * Heroku Kinds of apps I've delivered recently: * in-house solutions * SaaS's * analytics software * real-time apps * e-commerce apps *…
Comment linking /projects.html
on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2012) ”Submitted So you completed the official React tutorial. What's next? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK — Remote. Full-featured web app development: Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, Ember.js, node.js, CoffeeScript. http://goshakkk.name https://github.com/goshakkk me@goshakkk.name
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2013)”Submitted On being a polyglot as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK Location: Europe, but moving to the US in summer || Remote Email: hey@workwithgosha.com I’ve been doing a lot of mobile and front-end work past couple of years, but I know my way around back-ends, architecture, deployment. Most of my experience comes from consulting. You can see my some of past works & references here http://goshakkk.name/works/ I also keep a blog about React Native & React ( http://gos…
Comment linking /the-missing-forms-handbook-of-react/
on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2018)”Submitted Make migrating your forms to Redux easier in the future as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK remote or freelance An young geek and fucking awesome passionate application developer who cares about perfect code and simplicity. I know Ruby and Rails well, Django/Python at relatively good level. Use git for source control. Love Macs. Wanna work on interesting projects with amazing idea. Site/blog — http://goshakkk.name/ CV — http://goshakkk.name/assets/CV.pdf
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (October 2011)”Submitted Should you store your form state in Redux? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | REMOTE US I'm available for React and React Native projects. Some of my works can be found here: http://goshakkk.name/works/ Contact: hey@workwithgosha.com
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (June 2019)”Submitted Analytics: Analyzing tracked events as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK — remote Languages & Technologies: Ruby & Rails, Node.js, some Python/Django Other stuff: git, Rspec, Cucumber, SASS, HAML, CoffeeScript, MongoDB, jQuery, some linux administration. http://goshakkk.name/ or directly via email me@goshakkk.name I would like to work on great & interesting projects, if I can amaze me with your idea, I can do your project for free. (Inner desire to work on something cool, co…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2011)”Submitted 5 practical tips to finally learn React in 2018 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've always pointed folks to Gosha Arinich's posts on forms in React [0], as the best resource out there, particularly the post on "controlled vs uncontrolled inputs" [1]. (And if you really want to go in depth, he wrote a book on the topic as well. [2]) If you're looking for libs to help abstract working with more complex forms, Formik [3] and React Final Form [4] are probably your two best options. [0] https://gos…
Comment linking /the-missing-forms-handbook-of-react/
on “React Mental Models: Working with Input”Submitted Tracking events in analytics systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - San Francisco, CA / Bay Area or Remote Email: hey@workwithgosha.com I’ve been doing a lot of mobile and front-end work past couple of years, but I know my way around back-ends, architecture, deployment as well. You can see my some of past works & references here: http://goshakkk.name/works/ I keep a blog about React Native & React ( http://goshakkk.name ) and have self-published a book about forms in…
Comment linking /the-missing-forms-handbook-of-react/
on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2019)”Submitted Cases where JavaScript generators rock (+ understanding them) as a story · 2 points
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