Re:An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools
by dessant on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:38AM
(#25219467)
One of my worst decisions as a developer was to build upon a component framework maintained by Google.
Material Components for the web is constantly introducing breaking changes that make building upon the framework a nightmare. Lately they've even set this expectation in the project description. The problem is that the components are rather buggy, so you must regularly update them to have upstream bugs fixed.
> Material Components Web tends to release breaking changes on a monthly basis, but follows semver so you can control when you incorporate them. We typically follow a 2-week release schedule which includes one major release per month with breaking changes, and intermediate patch releases with bug fixes.
Re:An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools
by Tyr42 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @09:50AM
(#25220451)
I feel like the breaking changes must be because they're used to working in a monorepo, where you can just change the code and the clients at once. No need to worry about compatibility
Material Components for the web is constantly introducing breaking changes that make building upon the framework a nightmare. Lately they've even set this expectation in the project description. The problem is that the components are rather buggy, so you must regularly update them to have upstream bugs fixed.
> Material Components Web tends to release breaking changes on a monthly basis, but follows semver so you can control when you incorporate them. We typically follow a 2-week release schedule which includes one major release per month with breaking changes, and intermediate patch releases with bug fixes.
https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...
The development team's decisions have been questionable [1][2][3], so consider this a warning in case you are tempted to use the project.
[1] https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...
[2] https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...
[3] https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...