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Jack Franklin
Personal blog · javascriptplayground.com/blogprogrammingweb
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.
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?
- Embracing Promises in JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-08
- Misconceptions of [React.js] Tooling in JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-24
- /blog/2016/10/moving-to-webpack-2/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-02
What Hacker News says?
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”Submitted Beginning Node.js Development as a story · 60 points
HN discussionI 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”Submitted An introduction to jQuery Deferreds as a story · 50 points
HN discussionI 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”Submitted Exploring Backbone.js Tutorial as a story · 49 points
HN discussionMy 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”Submitted An introduction to the JavaScript Module Pattern as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted An introduction to PubSub & jQuery Implementation as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a basic jQuery tutorial with Grunt & QUnit as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript Scope & "this" as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted JS Testing Workflow tips with QUnit, PhantomJS & Mockjax as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons learned migrating complex JavaScript applications as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting started with TypeScript and React as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adventures with ReasomML as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using React 16.2's Fragments as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better data fetching with RemoteDataJS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misconceptions of [React.js] Tooling in JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The state of JavaScript tooling as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embracing Promises in JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embracing Promises in JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Destructuring in ECMAScript 6 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Refactoring Tales as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking Asynchronously as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Todo app in Node.js using Express.js, part 1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction on Grunt, a JS Command Line Tool as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A tutorial on Testing a JavaScript Project with QUnit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted JQuery 1.7 Event Binding: .on() and .off() as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Authoring and Publishing JavaScript Modules with Flow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JS Modules and Dependencies with jspm as a story · 2 points
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