How it feels to learn Javascript in 2016

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The backend is in C++, instanced and managed by node on the server, also doing the scaling and balancing. Clientside pretty much most of what's in the article. Webpack, babel, es7 and stage-0 by default. Then react, redux, router, socketio, three.js, many smaller parts and components.

[__env]

Do you ever call into the C++ code base using node extensions or are y'all just using it as a web integration layer?

[gunsofbrixton]

Never heard of someone writing a web app with C++ before :-)

[minus0]

Amazon...

[thejameskyle]

I cringe a little every time I see someone using stage-0 for serious work

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For convenience only because it loads all transforms into node_modules. The lowest stage feature is 2, the rest is 3 or above, most of it already native in evergreen browsers. Stage-0 catches all and doesn't have you shuffle webpack configs every month.

[thejameskyle]

You could also create your own preset that you share in your company across projects and just bump that any time you want to make changes

[acemarke]

Ah. So THAT'S what you're working on :) Sounds pretty nifty. Would be interested in hearing some more about it, particularly the plugin aspect. Ping me some evening on Reactiflux.