wisdom

* State management in the browser. This is stupid easy. I even wrote about exactly how to do this: https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/state_manag... * Just about anything to do with the DOM. Its a standard tree model. You learn it and get comfortable with it and suddenly all that browser tooling you cannot live without becomes immediately unnecessary. Hiding from this, making a bunch of excuses, and complaining about how hard life isn't appealing. * The file system is also a tree model. If you have an abstraction layer that normalizes file system access cross OS all you really need is a basic comfort of data structures. * Tools that provide session management are there because planning for real time parallel distribution is challenging. This is yet another one of those that once you go through it a few times you just

There’s a deep understanding of the tools they use every day. They may use a framework as a starting point, but they also understand the JavaScript that makes the underlying work. They leverage CSS like a fluent language, manipulating DOM elements to their will. They see browser APIs as the foundation of their process rather than puzzling concepts pulled from Stackoverflow answers. I wish that were true, I have not seen this in the corporate world and it appears absent in the job opening details of startups. My experience tells me this: * If you are really good you can be up and running a new project in something like React in 2 or 3 days. * If you are really good you can be up and running without any framework at all in about 2 weeks. * If you don’t use a framework you are forced to make tough design decisions early. This is critically b

I wrote something similar a few years back that gained a small amount of attention on GitHub: https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/Web_Educati...

Application state is a trivial problem to solve. Even better is that if you figure it out once you can carry the experience forward to any other project. The only reason people perceive this to be a real concern is because they have never done it without a framework. https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/state_manag...

Programming is a form of writing with equivalent difficulty. The challenge therein is relative and yet orthogonal to the reading of code. This is best described by perhaps the most prolific writer in human history: Isaac Asimov. The most striking thing that Asimov said about writing is about correctness. A good writer produces correctness the first time. They aren’t reliant upon tools, gimmicks, or editors to catch syntax or grammar violations because these trivialities aren’t the important concerns. Drafts are for revising ideas and distilling ideas down to a clearer thought. For good writers drafts don’t waste time or focus with correctness. In addition to writing with correctness the first time entirely from the author without a bunch of bullshit helpers good writers know what they want to write. They simply write it. They may not have