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@chantastic
chantastic / on-jsx.markdown
Last active September 17, 2024 16:40
JSX, a year in

Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't

@dennishall1
dennishall1 / split-svg-spritesheet.js
Created March 17, 2016 19:06
Split SVG Spritesheet into individual SVG files
var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
var markup = fs.readFileSync('sprite.svg').toString();
var lines = markup.split(/\n/g);
var symbols = {};
var currentSymbol = null;