Hamza SalahHamza

Replacing Create React App with the Next.js CLI

How dare you make a jab at Create React App!?

Firstly, Create React App is good. But it's a very rigid CLI, primarily designed for projects that require very little to no configuration. This makes it great for beginners and simple projects but unfortunately, this means that it's pretty non-extensible. Despite the involvement from big names and a ton of great devs, it has left me wanting a much better developer experience with a lot more polish when it comes to hot reloading, babel configuration, webpack configuration, etc. It's definitely simple and good, but not amazing.

Now, compare that experience to Next.js which for starters has a much larger team behind it provided by a world-class company (Vercel) who are all financially dedicated to making it the best DX you could imagine to build any React application. Next.js is the 💣-diggity. It has amazing docs, great support, can grow with your requirements into SSR or static site generation, etc.

So why

Things I believe

This is a collection of the things I believe about software development. I have worked for years building backend and data processing systems, so read the below within that context.

Agree? Disagree? Feel free to let me know at @JanStette.

Fundamentals

Keep it simple, stupid. You ain't gonna need it.

It's important to note that running this reset will drop any existing data you have in the application

How to reset PG Database on Heroku?

Step 1: heroku restart
Step 2: heroku pg:reset DATABASE (no need to change the DATABASE)
Step 3: heroku run rake db:migrate
Step 4: heroku run rake db:seed (if you have seed)

One liner

Ruby on Rails Cheatsheet

Architecture

Create a new application

Install the Rails gem if you haven't done so before

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

Project Title

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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

Useful Links

CSS Properties
- http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/CSS/Properties
Truncate text
- for 1 line
  - https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/truncate-string-with-ellipsis/
- for multiple lines
http://joelsaupe.com/programming/multiple-line-ellipsis-css/

	export const chaosTestStrings = (): void => {
	const textNodes = getAllTextNodes(document.body);

	for (const node of textNodes) {
	const textNodeLength = node.textContent ? node.textContent.length : 0;
	if (node.textContent === null) {
	return;
	}
	if (node.parentElement instanceof Element) {
	if (node.parentElement.dataset.originalText === undefined) {

	# Use this setup block to configure all options available in SimpleForm.
	# https://github.com/patricklindsay/simple_form-materialize/blob/master/lib/generators/simple_form/materialize/templates/config/initializers/simple_form_materialize.rb
	# contribute here: https://github.com/mkhairi/materialize-sass/issues/16
	SimpleForm.setup do \|config\|

	config.wrappers :default, class: :input,
	hint_class: :field_with_hint, error_class: :field_with_errors do \|b\|
	## Extensions enabled by default
	# Any of these extensions can be disabled for a
	# given input by passing: `f.input EXTENSION_NAME => false`.

	{
	"name": "npm-scripts-example",
	"version": "1.0.0",
	"description": "npm scripts example",
	"scripts": {
	"prebuild": "echo I run before the build script",
	"build": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production webpack",
	"postbuild": "echo I run after the build script"
	}
	}