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Thomas Boyt
Personal blog · thomasboyt.com · on HN as avolcanoprogrammingweb
Thomas Boyt writes thomas boyt's professional website, a personal blog at thomasboyt.com about programming and web. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Using React components as Backbone Views”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in HN threads on AngularJS and Flux. One commenter disputes the AngularJS post's build-tool criticism; another describes using React with Backbone instead of Flux.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Using React components as Backbone Views3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-12-17
- More maintainable Gruntfiles2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-01
What Hacker News says?
> 3. Slow, complex build tools Slow... depends on what you're used to; I've worked with Java / Maven and such, and one step worse, Scala; if you want slow, go for those. Complex. The author links to a certain gruntfile[0] as an example of a large, unmaintainable gruntfile, but apparently people forget that a gruntfile is just a Javascript / NodeJS file, and thus can be broken up into more manageable chunks - like an…
Comment linking /2013/09/01/maintainable-grunt.html
on “Why we left AngularJS”Submitted Using Ember.js and Firebase for powerful real-time applications as a story · 75 points
HN discussionI'm using React on a few smaller projects where I didn't want to over engineer the whole Flux architecture. I put together the app using Backbone (for the models and collections) and used React for the view layer. The models and collections worked great as "stores" and I used the simple dispatcher from Flux to handle the actions being sent. While I really like the Flux pattern, for smaller'ish apps it did seem a bit…
Comment linking /2013/12/17/using-reactjs-as-a-backbone-view.html
on “A cartoon guide to Flux”Submitted Announcing Charcoal, the easiest way to create Ember.js projects as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHere's a blog post with more information about its creation and development: http://www.thomasboyt.com/2013/03/24/announcing-noted.html
Comment linking /2013/03/24/announcing-noted.html
on “Show HN: Noted, a note-taking web app inspired by Vim”Submitted More maintainable Gruntfiles as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using React components as Backbone Views as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using React components as Backbone views as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interprocess Communication with Redis Pub/Sub as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop following high-volume sites and start reading more in your free time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Grunt & the ES6 Module Transpiler: an alternative to AMD + RequireJS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Grunt & the ES6 Module Transpiler (or tomorrow's syntax, today) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How and why Ember Data breaks as a story · 1 points
HN discussion