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if(and)else is a personal blog at ifandelse.com about programming, ai and career. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Using ReactJS and KendoUI Together”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-25, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2011–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for posts on React and JavaScript, including a post on using React with KendoUI and a post on closures in a Fibonacci generator. Comments cite these as examples.

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.

AI, code, leadership, and the occasional broader take

Most-linked posts?

  1. Using ReactJS and KendoUI Together
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. One could use React with one of the more established Grid plug-ins -- jQuery grids for instance. (here is an example of someone using KendoUI gauges with React http://ifandelse.com/using-reactjs-and-kendoui-together/ ) With Griddle, we were trying to mostly stick with React so it could be used without other libraries (we do currently have a dependency on underscore but we're hoping to remove that at some point in th…

    Comment linking /using-reactjs-and-kendoui-together/

    on “Show HN: A ReactJS Grid Component with infinite scroll, customization, and more”
  2. Submitted Knockout.js vs. Backbone.js – Part 1 « If & Else as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. People who write JavaScript in the sense of "jQuery with a few native calls", embedded in a webpage, don't tend to use closures, so searching for JS examples doesn't often throw them up. That might give you the impression they're unusual, but if you look at any substantial app you'll see them a lot. In fact, you can take a function closure and turn it in to a JS module that can be used with asynchronous loaders and…

    Comment linking /its-not-hard-making-your-library-support-amd-and-commonjs/

    on “Things I Learned Writing a Fibonacci Generator in JavaScript”
  4. Submitted Knockout.js vs. Backbone.js – Part 2 « If & Else as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Using ReactJS and KendoUI Together as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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