alexmuro

Totally agreed, what a great way to talk about somethings strengths / weakness.

"I'm curious about every solution's pros and cons, and I would prefer to discuss over evidence/artifacts instead of with platitude arguments."

best way to move a conversation forward I've seen in too long.

I work as a researcher in a grant funded lab, I can see where this post is coming from. There is a lot of needless politics in academia, and often the right things are not rewarded. However no matter what set of actions you choose to reward, people will find a way to game that system.

The criticism in this post, while at least partly true, is too cynical to make a difference in any way. Sure, there are a lot of poor and useless papers published and terrible labs in the US University research system, but the search for knowledge is moving undeniably forward under this system.

I use it, am very happy with it. Use npm for client and server. Modular design, and uni directional data flow makes project management better than ever.

#1 complaint is that watching with grunt react-browserfiy-ing the code buts a 3-15 second complile delay into my dev process.

Stuff like this makes me wonder what % of devs use IDE's vs text editors. Personally I can't see myself going over to an IDE, and I would have thought that most 'non traditional microsoft developers' wouldn't consider it either but maybe I am way off base.

My js and my markup live together but I still use seperate css. So maybe I was over stating my case but generally, I have a predefined set of styles that I am working from, which means I don't think about the styles too much, other than setting them using classes. I am definitely interested and excited for someone to make an excellent inline styles framework though, but I haven't found one yet.

Currently for most of my projects I still use bootstrap (with a theme or something) and just include one compiled css file and bootstrap.js in my main index (everything else gets put together into one javascript file by browserify). I choose my markup with classes (className) and use bootstraps interactive pieces (accordians, modals, messages) with the markup data api.

If you are really curious, here is a template app I often use to start from. (https://github.com/availabs/dashboardTemplate)

Being a current react user the thing that I like the most about react is having my markup and my logic in one self contained file. React is fast, but that isn't what has me use it on all of my projects. React has toString() which makes isomorphic apps very easy to create but that isn't why I use it either. I use it because it constantly encourages maintainable solutions for user interfaces.