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Michel Weststrate

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Michel Weststrate's personal blog at michel.codes covers programming and web. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “UI as an afterthought: thoughts about state management in react”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2019–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Michel Weststrate's posts on frontend state and UI architecture, such as 'UI as an afterthought'. One commenter cites it as a case for pairing Svelte with TypeScript and RxJS or MobX.

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.

Michel Weststrate: Trainer, speaker and open source developer. Currently hacking at Facebook. Author of MobX, MobX-State-Tree, Immer and a plethora of smaller packages. On a quest to make programming as natural as possible. React, JavaScript and TypeScript fan.

Most-linked posts?

  1. UI as an afterthought: thoughts about state management in react
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-02-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. Does anyone know what's the status of Typescript support in Svelte is? This thread is understandably locked: https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/1639 Still I'm curious. Typescript and RxJS (or MobX) with Svelte as the afterthought ( https://michel.codes/blogs/ui-as-an-afterthought ) would be a nice combo.

    Comment linking /blogs/ui-as-an-afterthought

    on “Web Development Simplified with Svelte”
  2. Submitted MobX 6 as a story · 162 points

    HN discussion
  3. I find the state of things in React, pun intended, a bit sad. Hooks are definitely an improvement over class based components but it still suffers from the same issue - having logic and state in the view layer leads to spaghetti code. Not to mention dependency arrays which are easy to get wrong and the weird syntax you end up with everywhere. I'm a big fan of MobX and it pains me to no end that it didn't took off be…

    Comment linking /blogs/ui-as-an-afterthought

    on “We memo all the things (2020)”
  4. Submitted UI as an afterthought as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted UI as an afterthought: thoughts about state management in react as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted UI as an afterthought. About FE architecture and the impact of React hooks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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