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Jack Franklin's personal blog at javascriptplayground.com covers programming and web. Since 2012, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “Embracing Promises in JavaScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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51mentions?
15HN people?
2012–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 21 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in webpack threads for posts on webpack, including a getting-started guide for webpack 2 and a note on moving to its new configuration format. The comments cite the posts as sources and do not judge them.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Embracing Promises in JavaScript
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-08
  2. Misconceptions of [React.js] Tooling in JavaScript
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-24
  3. /blog/2016/10/moving-to-webpack-2/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. The style I like to use is the css/scss webpack loader. Basically, you import a .scss file into your .jsx. The scss is compiled and at the same time imported into .jsx as a hashmap where the key is your scss class-name & the value is the compiled class-name. I think this sounds like what you're looking for since it keeps jsx & css in their respective files but still being coupled into their own component which is ea…

    Comment linking /blog/2016/07/css-modules-webpack-react/

    on “Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework”
  2. Submitted Beginning Node.js Development as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  3. I guess most of the changes are 'under the hood', but there are some breaking changes in configuration as well. "loaders" => "rules" etc. http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2016/10/moving-to-webpa...

    Comment linking /blog/2016/10/moving-to-webpack-2/

    on “Getting Started with Webpack 2”
  4. Submitted An introduction to jQuery Deferreds as a story · 50 points

    HN discussion
  5. I made Sideshow because: 1) I always wanted to start a daily digest/newsletter of some kind and I'm super passionate about side projects. 2) I wanted to learn more about JavaScript, Node.js and Redis. And there it is. It's built with ~300 lines of code of Node.js + Express + Redis, has an admin area to manage links (I called it 'Backstage'[1]) and MailChimp API integration for automated newsletter sending (both dail…

    Comment linking /blog/2012/06/node-express-todo-app-redis

    on “Show HN: My side project about side projects”
  6. Submitted Exploring Backbone.js Tutorial as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  7. My favorite change is how configuration has been clarified. For example, see how loaders are configured now - instead of using a giant string delimited by special characters like this: 'css-loader?modules-true!postcss-loader!sass-loader' Loaders are configured with an ordered list: [ { loader: 'css-loader', options: { modules: true } }, { loader: 'postcss-loader' }, { loader: 'sass-loader' } ] It takes up way more s…

    Comment linking /blog/2016/10/moving-to-webpack-2/

    on “Webpack 2, RC 7”
  8. Submitted An introduction to the JavaScript Module Pattern as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted An introduction to PubSub & jQuery Implementation as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Writing a basic jQuery tutorial with Grunt & QUnit as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted JavaScript Scope & "this" as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted JS Testing Workflow tips with QUnit, PhantomJS & Mockjax as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Lessons learned migrating complex JavaScript applications as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Getting started with TypeScript and React as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Adventures with ReasomML as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Using React 16.2's Fragments as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Better data fetching with RemoteDataJS as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Misconceptions of [React.js] Tooling in JavaScript as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted The state of JavaScript tooling as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Embracing Promises in JavaScript as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Embracing Promises in JavaScript as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Destructuring in ECMAScript 6 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted The Refactoring Tales as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Thinking Asynchronously as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Building a Todo app in Node.js using Express.js, part 1 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Introduction on Grunt, a JS Command Line Tool as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted A tutorial on Testing a JavaScript Project with QUnit as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted JQuery 1.7 Event Binding: .on() and .off() as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Authoring and Publishing JavaScript Modules with Flow as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted JS Modules and Dependencies with jspm as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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