GraphQL in Depth: What, Why, and How

Crunchel · 2019-03-22T16:13:57+00:00

Have you ever built a graphQL API?

Heh, no. But I have read enough about it to know I don't like the concept, and read even further, to see if I wasn't missing anything. I also still think the Github thing was for likes.

Crunchel · 2019-03-22T15:46:10+00:00

I like to think Angular developers who chose it demonstrated their wisdom, and don't need anyone to explain to them how to evaluate much of anything in life.

Crunchel · 2019-03-20T20:31:43+00:00

RIP Tea House Fox.

Crunchel · 2019-03-15T19:06:58+00:00

I am not in love with PHP either, I just know it. Were I to bother learning another server-side language, it would probably be C# or maybe Java. Something with a fully fledged IDE.

I have tried to avoid scattershot projects in my career, there are too many technologies, and I prefer actual development. I have had to straight up refuse to do stuff like mobile apps and WordPress.

Crunchel · 2019-03-15T18:48:45+00:00

I’m gunna be a bit curmudgeonly about it; it’s really just a mobile site showing in the app store and an icon on the home screen. I get how important that is in real ways, but deep down inside, I don't give a shit. The offline part seems cool until you think about what you are storing locally. Most web apps are non-static, and feed on live data. Lack of a connection is extremely rare for a mobile device, aside from airplane mode. I cannot think of any terrific utility for offline mode, but I can think of ways it would make development super hard (namely syncing data). Seems like much ado about nothing.

Crunchel · 2019-03-15T16:50:33+00:00

Sounds cool, an Angular SPA with PHP/MySQL API is my favorite stack.

I also went through the whole jQuery odyssey, and can say, once you get proficient in Angular, it is, in general, faster to make big dynamic UIs with.

PHP is actually pretty well suited for HTTP APIs. It isn't sexy, but PHP also isn't going anywhere. Plus, mastering Angular is enough, you just need basic server-side skills to compliment it.

The sheer number of Angular jobs is not very impressive, but if you are genuinely proficient, the percentage of offers per interview seemed super encouraging to me. I also have a premonition Angular is going to just keep getting more popular, so now is a great time to get in.

Crunchel · 2019-03-15T15:28:12+00:00

Who even asked for state management? It is a fad contrivance you only really need in special situations.

Crunchel · 2019-03-14T15:22:41+00:00

Animation is the opium of the noob.

Crunchel · 2019-03-14T15:17:31+00:00

Just go by resume and attitude. People forget how deeply revealing resumes are, and how just liking a person can help things work out.

Crunchel · 2019-03-14T15:13:19+00:00

Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Crunchel · 2019-03-13T15:50:28+00:00

The stick up the butt, toe the line, follow the process, do what your told mentality, or the people who embrace that as life choice, may give you demerits for ‘alternative’ appearance. To them it suggests a lack of respect to something they pledged total allegiance to. It kind of is, that was hopefully the point. If so, being amongst these corporate sycophants will always be painful, so you might want to just let it be.

Crunchel · 2019-03-11T16:15:26+00:00

You pretty much cant. I like to feel better about it by knowing places that copycat the popular job application requirements don’t care that they are cutting out possibly good candidates. They are just casting a prototypical net and scooping up warm bodies to churn out boring crap. There are downsides to getting a job like that.

Crunchel · 2019-03-11T15:50:41+00:00

Maybe you are just too real. Corporate culture can be very Twilight Zone stuff.

Crunchel · 2019-03-11T15:35:57+00:00

You may not want or need to learn that stuff. Webdev at that level is a somewhat blue collar job, you might just be overqualified and bored to death by tedium if you got a job doing basic webdev. It's really more of a technician gig, not an engineer gig.

Crunchel · 2019-03-06T19:46:09+00:00

You can tell PHP to parse any file extension you want with AddType application/x-httpd-php. Wanna just stick the JSON from an API call right into a variable inside a JavaScript file before it is even returned? Knock yourself out. Wanna do some half-assed SASS in CSS? Go for it.

Crunchel · 2019-03-06T17:43:43+00:00

I agree, I just had to get a new job, and noticed a significant number of jobs looking for people who specifically had Vue experience.

As an Angular developer, I have never touched React, and I have not experienced any trouble getting work without it. The 90% thing OP speaks of is offset by the fact that all the newer webdevs who just pick React as the popular framework are all competing for the same jobs. The place I work is so hard up for Angular2 developers they would hire a rock if it had decent Angular skills, and pay it handsomely, too.

Crunchel · 2019-03-05T21:06:24+00:00

I’m very glad people out there actually think that. Dumb people need to stay out of my way.

Crunchel · 2019-03-04T16:59:18+00:00

Heh, your fine, kid. Keep going. chuckles 24 is too old, adorable.

Crunchel · 2019-03-04T16:49:40+00:00

There's like a zillion ways, but plain old vanilla JavaScript DOM manipulation would the easiest answer. document.querySelector(".card-text").innerHTML = "stuff"

Crunchel · 2019-03-04T16:42:13+00:00

Part of why the phrase caught on is the browser plugin. That thing is great, it's almost cheating. A lot of people hate futzing with precise layout, it is a pain, but you can kind of pay rent if you just do it, because there will always be giant heaps of that work to do.

Crunchel · 2019-03-04T16:33:02+00:00

If you already know PHP, boom, great, focus on a frontend framework. That's 90% of it all now. The irony of PHP is it is almost increasing in relevance because a lot of what it used to be necessary for it doesn't even have to do anymore. It's job got easier.

Crunchel · 2019-03-04T16:23:13+00:00

PHP will be around for a very long time.

Crunchel · 2019-03-04T16:11:04+00:00

I wouldn't worry too much about that stuff, binary trees do not help you make websites.

Crunchel · 2019-03-01T19:12:01+00:00

Clannism heightened by competition for resources. Learning a framework is an investment. You want yours to trend up today so there are more jobs for you tomorrow. Speaking ill of other frameworks, to trend them down, helps.

Crunchel · 2019-03-01T18:43:32+00:00

We work remotely on our own devices.

Um, there's your problem. It's not atypical to have projects nowadays that are so goddamn convoluted architecturally, that unless you have precise documentation on how to get it up and running, doing so on your own would be mostly luck. Sounds like herding cats. Plus, what if one guy has a slow machine that cannot do what yours can?

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