Re:Yahoo Mail moving to React
by calebm on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @11:24AM
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I did. I was very much a skeptic of Node.js, but the tools and libraries won me over. So much work is being done to make Javascript a viable platform.
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Out of curiosity, what did you program in before you learned node?
I switched from WPF, C# dev to Angular JS with Typescript and Web API with relative ease and I'm digging it. Typescript definitely helped though. I know I have plenty more to learn, but it's not as shitty as people make it out to be.
Re:Yahoo Mail moving to React
by delluminatus on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @02:30PM
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If you're using Web API (built on ASP.NET) then you're not using Node, which is a Web server written in Javascript.
But I do think it's cool that someone can transition from WPF to Web development with Angular without feeling too lost. Dynamic Web development used to be a very, very different ballgame from client application development.
What if you use Node to serve up the client and use Web API as the back end which you make calls to?