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jondot
hygen
JavaScript2018–2025
jondot / hygen

hygen

The simple, fast, and scalable code generator that lives in your project.

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
5.9KGitHub stars
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What it is

The simple, fast, and scalable code generator that lives in your project.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-02-09 19:01:55 UTC to 2025-09-16 08:45:15 UTC.

0122018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Hard agree. I've used xml directives before, all the way back to Macromedia Flex (which I believe borrowed form something in the Java space, which probably borrowed from something else). I'll likely NEVER use anything that doesn't let me run JSX. My personal preference is for complexity at the start of the render pipeline (e.g. in state) or at the end (e.g, in JSX). So I personally dislike complex hooks composition, but I can live with it. (My) teams seem to like it. I'd rather have boilerplate of redux, or redux sagas - or a S.O.L.I.D framework + scaffolding tools, and turn the composition of logic part of my brain off. But the context switch to maintaining scaffolding tools is perhaps a bit of a jump. As an aside: I'm shocked to see Yeoman largely diminished in activity, and Hygen (https://github.com/jondot/hygen) not getting anywhere n
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ear enough love as it deserves etc. Perhaps there is some, first-class macro or meta programming or combination of the two that is missing. Or maybe its hard to invest in tools you can't necessarily take from job to job - as scaffolding tools are capturing opinion.
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