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Beautifier and language aware code comparison tool for many languages. It also minifies and a few other things.

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Beautifier and language aware code comparison tool for many languages. It also minifies and a few other things.

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Jul 2017	2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Aug 2017	2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Sep 2017	2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 2017	2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 2017	2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 2017	2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 2018	2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 2018	2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 2018	2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 2018	2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jun 2018	2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 2018	2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 2018	2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2018	2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 2018	2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 2018	2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 2018	2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jan 2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
Feb 2019	2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 2019	2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 2019	2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 2019	2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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austincheney·May 19, 2019

You can look at my SPA that maintains state perfectly well and persistently without any framework. It isn't hard, but you would have to be willing to write original code. https://prettydiff.com/ All of the UI is defined here: https://github.com/prettydiff/prettydiff/blob/master/api/pre...

In Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)

obilgic·Jan 28, 2019Submission

Prettydiff – language aware code comparison tool for many languages

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austincheney·Dec 7, 2018

This used to be a pain in the ass for me, but the beginning of this I rewrote everything from scratch including the UI. Now I have everything automated behind a build. All of my options, their configuration, and all corresponding documentation is built from a single simple config. * Here is the site - https://prettydiff.com * Config - https://github.com/prettydiff/prettydiff/blob/master/api/opt... To automate this properly so that user performance is fast and maintenance is simple you don't need any frameworks or tooling. You just need a good plan and a proper organization of things. About 80% of the user interactions are built from automation. There is some manual wiring that has to occur for various things where interactions are unique to a given option. The manual interaction stuff wasn't too bad when I wrote the code this past sp

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ring and it requires almost no maintenance. All the stuff that would be a pain the ass to keep up with is fully automated.

In Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?

austincheney·Aug 16, 2017

The repo that helped me learn to developer is JSLint. This influenced my thinking on code organization more than all other facets combined. Please note though that JSLint has changed directions on a couple things since I started learning programming in 2008. * https://github.com/douglascrockford/jslint The repository that taught me about parsers, code style, and algorithms was writing PrettyDiff. * https://github.com/prettydiff/prettydiff

In Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land your first job?

jasim·Jul 6, 2017

Depth. Every programmer I admire has worked on their chosen field for years. You can keep flitting between languages and frameworks, but mastery ultimately comes from hankering down on one thing and advancing our collective knowledge a bit further. You can achieve mastery in any field - it can be a business domain - as mundane as a Time Tracking or a Todo list app, or it can be a technical domain - like compilers or databases or browsers. You however can't achieve mastery by consuming what others produce. Becoming an expert in CSS and its quirks is a good vocational investment, but you're no closer to a fundamental understanding of the field by just consuming an API. You should spend years working on a problem domain that interests you. Look at prettydiff (https://github.com/prettydiff/prettydiff). It is a diff tool, a parser, a pretty pr

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inter, a minifier, all rolled into one. It is the most comprehensive publicly available tool in terms of language and dialect support in the world right now. Its code is not the most modular and new contributors might have trouble getting in, but its author has been at this problem for years, and if you called a conference for pretty-printing, he would be one among the few thousand people in the world to meaningfully participate. Consider blueimp's jQuery File Upload plugin (https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload). While this isn't as foundational a work as prettydiff, the project spans seven years and a thousand commits. It solves a mundane problem, but the sheer effort that has went into it makes it a formidable solution. Consider Martin Odersky, watch Compilers are Databases (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxyyJyB_Ssc). He has been writing compilers for like forever. He's worked on the field for decades, and has written compilers for everything from Fortran to Java to Scala. You don't have to be a genius to be a master. You just need to go as deep into a field as you can. Here are a few interesting links you might want to read: The Joys of Having a Forever Project: http://web.archive.org/web/20130125011224/http://www.dev.gd/... Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer: https://gist.github.com/prakhar1989/1b0a2c9849b2e1e912fb You and Your Research by Richard Hamming: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

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