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codejamninjaon Show HN: Manage Dotfiles with Stow

I built dotstow as a simple way to combine 2 really great technologies, git and stow.

codejamninjaon Show HN: Manage Dotfiles with Stow

that’s the way everyone first tries it

codejamninjaon Show HN: Manage Dotfiles with Stow

looks like a great project, but it’s more complicated than dotstow

codejamninjaon Show HN: Render abstract syntax trees using React

Exactly :)

codejamninjaon Show HN: Render abstract syntax trees using React

The Code component would do a poor job at nesting code in a body. The point of this project is to make it easy to generate code through an AST, hence the <Code /> "catch call".

codejamninjaon Show HN: Render abstract syntax trees using React

Great feedback. The points you make are good. Listed below are the reasons I chose to go with react.

1. I'm getting my feet wet with React rendering (I will be building a full react renderer in the future for another project)

2. It may be useful in the future for dynamic code editing (not sure but a possible use case)

3. Though react really shines in the render lifecycle, it does provide a nice pattern for building components. I see this project being used as a way to componentize composable code generators and snippets.