Lewis Chan lwschan

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

Auto-deploying built products to gh-pages with GitHub Actions

This is a set up for projects which want to check in only their source files, but have their gh-pages branch automatically updated with some compiled output every time they push.

A file below this one contains the steps for doing this with Travis CI. However, these days I recommend GitHub Actions, for the following reasons:

It is much easier and requires less steps, because you are already authenticated with GitHub, so you don't need to share secret keys across services like you do when coordinate Travis CI and GitHub.
It is free, with no quotas.
Anecdotally, builds are much faster with GitHub Actions than with Travis CI, especially in terms of time spent waiting for a builder.

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	rem see https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows/issues/300

	@echo off
	SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion

	if [%1] == [] (
	echo Pass in the version you would like to install, or "latest" to install the latest npm version.
	) else (
	set wanted_version=%1

	public static void Fade (this UIView view, bool isIn, double duration = 0.3, Action onFinished = null)
	{
	var minAlpha = (nfloat)0.0f;
	var maxAlpha = (nfloat)1.0f;

	view.Alpha = isIn ? minAlpha : maxAlpha;
	view.Transform = CGAffineTransform.MakeIdentity ();
	UIView.Animate (duration, 0, UIViewAnimationOptions.CurveEaseInOut,
	() => {
	view.Alpha = isIn ? maxAlpha : minAlpha;