Okay #frontend folks:
I wrote UIs before React. I leaned into React hard early on, because it matched my mental model for UIs. I don't want to do React anymore.
**In your opinion what's the next best direction for building UIs?**
My goal is to simplify the process of writing and managing accessible interactive components with as little overhead as possible.
Boosts and wildly unpopular opinions welcome.
Vibing with the Agent Control Protocol
Although most of my actual work happens inside a terminal, I have been wanting an easy way to talk to the newfangled crop of AI agents from my iPhone.(...)
The high freshmen highschool kiddo's took the #PreACT last semester and received their scores this week.
One of them, who thinks he's not as intelligent as he actually is (compares himself to his twin....) did better then average and had some surprising strengths.
The other one scored the second highest in the school.
We are proud of them both! 🤘
Preact 11 Beta Introduces Hydration 2.0, Default Ref Forwarding, and Modernized Bundling, by @infoq.com:
Uhhh..... #Preact 11 will bring some nice features:
Web Development for Beginners: Frontend Frameworks, by @rauschma:
@rauschma it's been a while since I wrote about it, but I've used buildless #preact for quite a bunch of cool things over the years (and still do) 😎
Feel free to have a look at https://ttntm.me/blog/buildless-preact-starter/ and https://ttntm.me/blog/building-a-data-viewer-with-preact/ if you're curious
I just realized I'm importing too much from #Preact, while it is not importing anything from me.
Should I start putting tariffs on the imports? Is there a TC39 proposal for tariff syntax?
I'm warning you @developit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbhGFksNgr4
😹
My esteemed followers, you have posted a total of 375,809 statuses to the #fediverse. 22% of you have posted in the last 24h. You are a chatty bunch! ;-)
Check out my new #sideproject: *fedi-followers*. A privacy-friendly fediverse #followers explorer as #localonly #staticwebapp, decentrally hosted on the #ipfs. See who's actually following (and unfollowing) you over time and much more.
https://fedi--followers-data0-one.ipns.dweb.link/
#decentralization #mastodev #esmodules #importmaps #nobuild #indexeddb #preact
I've built a thing.
Sometimes my follower count seemingly fluctuates at random. To understand why, I dug into the #MastodonAPI and created "fedi-followers":
A privacy-friendly #fediverse #followers explorer as local-only static web app, decentrally hosted on the #ipfs. See who's actually following (and unfollowing) you over time and much more.
https://fedi--followers-data0-one.ipns.dweb.link/
#mastodev #javascript #webapp #staticwebapp #nobuild #esmodules #importmaps #indexeddb #preact #htm
@emmanueltouzery A year ago I took a risk and started building a big-ish app with #Preact where I would have otherwise used #React. So far it's going great. It also encouraged everyone to use much less external dependencies and build out more stuff themselves which in turn makes maintenance much easier and the whole app more future-proof. And it turned out the `compat` module needs to be used much less than originally thought.
Even though I'm a backend developer I've got to keep abreast of some frontend stuff so that I can lend my general developer brain to designing or advising or fixing things wherever it happens, and it looks like I've now got to get up to speed on #Preact and #TailWind and #WebPack for the next phase of work. That'll keep me busy for a bit.
I want to rebuild AirDrop on WebRTC, with QR codes / links to find one another in the same room. Happy to build the backend and collaborate on frontend internals, looking for a #preact #webdev interested in this open source project. I'm rather serious about this side project and have experience in similar fields. Portfolio @ https://pcarrier.com
can't actually find if/where #preact documents its handling for `style` properties. even in React it's kinda glossed over. just by example in https://react.dev/learn/javascript-in-jsx-with-curly-braces#using-double-curlies-css-and-other-objects-in-jsx although I suppose somewhat via TypeScript definition at https://react.dev/learn/typescript#typing-style-props
@davidshq I've built many such applications over the years. The ones built with #vue are still quite easy to maintain, even 5+ years later - Vue 3 + #typescipt + #vite is a great stack to work with.
If you must JSX, then use #preact. It's not a bad choice either, but maintaining the hook soup isn't fun in the long run.
@Isabella_uy Do you know if #Preact Signals + #React is a good idea?
A Quick Way To Evaluate Software Frameworks
One of the most impressive bits of #software I’ve used is #Python. When I started to learn Python, it was version 1.5, a long time ago. I was immediately impressed with the tutorial. It was the first port of call. Here it is now:
<https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html>
Read the tutorial basics and you could start exploring the language library
<https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html>
knowing you could master enough to move to more advanced concepts. Want to do something more complicated? Say build a web server?
First you might try the #HOWTO pages trying #sockets:
<https://docs.python.org/3/howto/index.html>
After reading about the limitations you might try the #PEPS (Python Enhancement Proposal) What is a PEP? Try reading this page:
<https://peps.python.org/pep-0001/)
Finally you might decide #WSGI is what you want and read the specification at
<https://peps.python.org/pep-0333/>. I travelled this path in 2007/8 to build a version of my blog engine. ☺️
<https://seldomlogical.com/redux.html>
So I go the latest build on #Deno, install it and try a simple blog engine to see how it works
<https://deno.com/blog/build-a-blog-with-fresh>.
The example code fails, the source code fails. I see the basic documentation for it (yet to try, but skimming through, it appears okay.) The tutorial only a couple of years old has rusted, the source is unmaintained. The issue is with JS / #React / #Preact where plain old #HTML5 and #CSS will do. 😔
A quick example how the basics have to documented, correct in bite sized pieces. The #HOWTOS maintained and blog #examples periodically revised.
