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thomasboyt / webpack-approach.md
Last active February 5, 2019 02:20

Why I think Webpack is the right approach to build pipelines

(I've reposted this on my blog, which you may find more pleasant to read: http://devlog.disco.zone/2016/06/01/webpack/)

I was asked on Twitter why I think Webpack is the right approach to build tooling in JavaScript applications. My explanation is, uh, a bit longer than fit in a single tweet.

When I say "right approach," I'm specifically talking about the way Webpack's pipeline functions. There are certainly some deficiencies in various aspects of Webpack: it has a rather unintuitive API, and often requires quite a bit of boilerplate to set up. However, even with these issues, I think the core principles of how Webpack functions are sound.

I should also mention here this argument basically applies to SystemJS as well. I'm skeptical of various aspects of SystemJS, but I've only taken a very surface-level look at it, so I'm gonna withhold judgement until I've had a chance

@jquense
jquense / 0. intro.md
Last active September 24, 2022 05:10
Alternative ways to define react Components

The 0.13.0 improvements to React Components are often framed as "es6 classes" but being able to use the new class syntax isn't really the big change. The main thing of note in 0.13 is that React Components are no longer special objects that need to be created using a specific method (createClass()). One of the benefits of this change is that you can use the es6 class syntax, but also tons of other patterns work as well!

Below are a few examples creating React components that all work as expected using a bunch of JS object creation patterns (https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/this%20&%20object%20prototypes/ch4.md#mixins). All of the examples are of stateful components, and so need to delegate to React.Component for setState(), but if you have stateless components each patterns tends to get even simpler. The one major caveat with react components is that you need to assign props and context to the component instance otherwise the component will be static. The reason is

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mattbaker / README
Created December 22, 2011 06:02
SVG to PNG render with Node and D3.js
This example expects to have d3.min.js and d3.layout.min.js in the same directory as pie.js and pie_serv.js.
Run with node pie_serv.js