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I wonder how it feels to be running or working for a company that develops a product that almost all informed members of the developer community think is bad. They must be in some serious denial.

I guess it depends on how you define simple. To me, React is far simpler than jQuery because of its declarative nature. It’s simple to reason about and easy to maintain and change. I would say it’s a much more straightforward tool than jQuery. However, advising them to delay state management (Redux, MobX) until needed is definitely a good idea.

(Also, hey neighbor—I live right off campus)

What's everyone favorite library for doing Postgres migrations using node? I'm using knex.js and still doing migrations mostly by hand.

Totally, I love it. Very expressive and fun.

The abstraction issue you're talking about doesn't exist. You can always drop down to custom native components for anything you need to do. That's one of the best parts.

I spent 5 months rewriting my game Falcross from Obj-C to React Native, and it functions exactly the same (even better in some places because of RN's wonderful Animated API). Try the game and tell me if you "feel the JS": https://www.falcross.com/

As a solo developer, RN allows me to share 95% of code between platforms and still customize that ever so important 5% with native modules. And I'm iterating 2-3x faster than I was with Obj-C.

I don't have an app big enough but to necessitate the product yet but I've been following Citus' progress for a long time and I'm always impressed. Today is no exception! Can't wait to have a reason to use it.

I appreciate your comment. I definitely didn't see it that way until now but I think you're right.

Interesting that this has nothing to do with ride sharing (or at least the article doesn't cite that as a reason). I think autonomy and ride sharing will drive used cars nearer to the value of scrap metal within the next 5 years.

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I've been loving Metabase, and it's free! http://www.metabase.com

I love it! So clean and well thought out. Great job as always, React team.

This is one of the best comments I've ever read. Well said.

What's gonna happen to the Opbeat Heroku Add-On?

Sharp for node.js has proven to be powerful, flexible and fast for my needs: https://github.com/lovell/sharp/

My initial impression as an indie developer is that this new design has a way lower apps-per-screen density and seems to be even more heavily focused on promoting bigger developers.

Hopefully time will prove that it still works well for discovering indie apps.

TL;DW?

I'm working on a tool to help dating app users get more matches in an honest and organic way: https://www.picbot.co/

Problem: People are really bad a choosing the right dating app photos and often end up frustrated thinking there's something wrong with them when they just have awful photos.

Launching in a few days on iOS.

Neither. Just import a singleton root store and reference it directly.

As someone who has been on both sides of this equation, I think you've phrased it very eloquently. Well said.

Hi Beni! My dashboard wasn't loading (the JS assets from cloudfront.net seemed to be throwing an access-control-origin error) but it is now working again. Very slow, but it works. Fortunately nothing critical is happening right now so no worries. Love your service :)

Incredible how much stuff this affected for me. Opbeat is not loading and I can't even deploy because CircleCI seems to depend on S3 for something and my build is "Queued". This seems so dangerous...

Absolutely! I just finished re-writing the app in React Native so it will definitely be coming to Android.

If you like creating pixel art I implore you to come play Falcross! We've got a nonogram puzzle editor that allows you to create masterpieces up to 25x25px, and there are thousands of hungry players waiting to solve your puzzles :) https://www.falcross.com/

I have no idea what you're talking about. Facebook is very generous with equity for employees and I"m sure the founders got a good deal.

I'm on the same page. My "old = inferior" bias is swiftly wearing off as I gain more experience.

Parse was an amazing discovery when I was just starting out my dev career and I've used it in all of my major projects, but it had some serious shortcomings. I wrote about why I think Parse failed from a developer's perspective.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522602

On the last point--I think trying to do this is one of the big reasons Parse failed. Auto optimizing DBs is an incredibly complex and delicate task.

My Parse app's write performance suffered because my biggest table (27m rows, 10 small columns, 15GB) ended up with 17 auto-created indexes, taking up an additional 15GB of space.

I used Node and Loopback.js for my last project (massive project). It was great in the sense that it helped us avoid writing lots of boilerplate, but the ORM and the "current context" module were a constant source of frustration.

Now I'm working on a project with a smaller scope and I'm simply using express.js and knex.js, no ORM. I love the simplicity and level of control I have. It's liberating not to have to guess what the ORM is doing to my data between my code and the DB layer.

Why is there no way around this? This is surprising to me and I'm super curious.

Don't worry, media outlets generally don't care about vailidity.

HN, Reddit, Product Hunt. Why is Reddit "bad now", because someone wrote that and now it's your new world view? Reddit is stronger than ever.