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Name a tech you recently tried, but wasn't fully a fan of?

Consider all the languages, frameworks, libraries, editors, extensions, etc you have recently used.

Leaving IE out of equation, what was something web-related you tried, but wasn't fully a fan of?

It would be Jade/Pug to me, due to it's weird syntax, white-space indentations and HTML context switch.

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Simon Landry • Edited

Sass, I like Scss but not Sass, I never disliked brackets so I'll stay with Scss.

Also GraphQL if that counts, I tried it but I don't see myself using it since I feel like it doesn't solve anything SQL doesn't already solve.

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Jakub Sarnowski • Edited

Would love to hear the "why" answer 😃

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lamka02sk

Probably because it is unnecessary overhead and it has no additional value, but it is "fancy".

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Jakub Sarnowski

Cannot disagree more 😃 Have you been working with these on a bigger-scale project? CSS-in-JS are a breeze in terms of development speed, code readability and maintenance, and are also a lot easier to optimize. Creating clean CSS, without much duplicate code and with some kind of organisation is a pretty hard task.

Also, when the - almost unnoticeable - overhead is a problem for you, you can always use some of the zero-runtime CSS-in-JS libraries.

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Madza • Edited

Just saved an article on it to explore the downsides more ;)

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AxelleDRouge

Figma : I started a design with it, but I found it hard to learn. Then I tried Adobe XD and it was a match <3

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Madza

I would recommend to try Sketch and InVision as well, to understand the best fit ;)

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AxelleDRouge

Maybe I will try InVision for a next project.
But not Sketch, because I'm on Windows (and I don't like Apple)

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Madza

Hahah, that escalated pretty quickly 😂 😂

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AxelleDRouge

😂 At least it's clear ;) but well, it's a true problem for Sketch. I don't want to have to buy a mac just for a software (a friend actually did that)

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Madza • Edited

Straight outta series 'How to loose a friend in web dev 101s' 😂

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AxelleDRouge

Well she's a UX designer, so... maybe it's legit ?

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Madza

Good for her, plus she can still run Win or Linux on that if she later decides to work on any of those two ;)

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AxelleDRouge

Yeah that's the plan :)

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Amit Patel

Webpack with Rails is disappointing when you don't want to use JavaScript frontend frameworks. I spent hours on figuring out why some of the JavaScripts not loading.

Finally gave up and chose to use assets pipeline/sprockets over webpacker.

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Evgeniy • Edited

It competes with REST not SQL, you query data form APIs in a by SQL inspired way, for example

@madarsbiss , @ivanjeremic89
Huh. To be precise, GraphQL not competes with REST either, because REST is not about querying data, REST is about web pages with hypertext(usually HTML).

If you're interested, here are some links:
Roy Fielding(REST author) about it - youtube.com/watch?v=w5j2KwzzB-0
His blog posts:
roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-a...
roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/no-res...

Original paper - ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissert...

Also:
twitter.com/fielding/status/105297...
twitter.com/fielding/status/110809...
Short and clear: stackoverflow.com/questions/198842...
etc.

GraphQL is just another way to do build API's instead of common way's to do HTTP API's.

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Paramanantham Harrison

KeystoneJS framework. It has lot of magic to build your own CMS but it doesn’t provide graphql subscriptions capabilities on top of their models

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Jakub Sarnowski

Try Strapi, it's pretty good 😃

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Madza

Have seen that name pop up couple of times :) Since Node is not among primary technologies in current projects, haven't really tried KeystoneJS xdd

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Keith Darragh • Edited

Nameko - python microservices framework. That framework is supposed to speed up development of microservices. However it's documentation was missing too many key pieces of information to make it worthwhile learning. With the docs not being up to date, there's a worry that the support wouldn't be up to scratch either.

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Simon Landry

I might have to read more about it then. 🤔

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Madza • Edited

Most of the devs called GraphQL the new REST, when it first came out ;)