Re:React Hot Loader: Tweak React Components in Real Time
by drdiablo on Monday February 02, 2015 @01:40AM
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I think you forgot something that is very important to React: your component is a pure function that takes props and states and that outputs UI. Being able to make the assumption that given the same props and state, you'll get the exact same UI (to the cursor position), is extremely powerful. As a programmer your brain can focus on other things and forget about side nasty effects.
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Re:React Hot Loader: Tweak React Components in Real Time
by Touche on Monday February 02, 2015 @09:37AM
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In React your component is a class. The `render` function is a pure function, but the component itself is a state machine. This is why I prefer Mercury[1]
Re:React Hot Loader: Tweak React Components in Real Time
by danabramov on Monday February 02, 2015 @11:50AM
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Also Cycle: https://github.com/staltz/cycle/
I don't prefer them over React, but I agree they make this stuff easier. React Hot Loader is a hack after all ;-)
Re:React Hot Loader: Tweak React Components in Real Time
by jasim on Monday February 02, 2015 @06:29AM
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True. No more spaghetti ball-of-mud. I'm waiting for IntelliJ to release `Extract custom render method` and `Extract React Component` refactors in their IDEs.
Re:React Hot Loader: Tweak React Components in Real Time
by danabramov on Monday February 02, 2015 @07:05AM
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Hell yeah. That would compel me to switch to an IDE. In fact a React component-centric IDE would have been awesome.