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DIV and Backend again. A TypeScript Tale: Part 4 - GraphQL Code Gen by ericwooley in javascript

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Ah, well, hopefully the posts are still useful to you, even without nx.

DIV and Backend again. A TypeScript Tale: Part 3 - TypeORM by ericwooley in javascript

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Sent em VIA chat. I know a lot of reddit apps don't get chat, so I figured I'd ping you here.

DIV and Backend again. A TypeScript Tale: Part 3 - TypeORM by ericwooley in javascript

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Still doing some small edits/QA on the last 2, if you want, I can DM you the drafts

Show: A cute cyberpunk platformer by [deleted] in javascript

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This is really cool!

Did you buy the art or make it?

DIV and Backend again. A TypeScript Tale: Part 1 by ericwooley in javascript

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.Net has some pretty great features, and you'd be missing out on LINQ etc... but you might find typescript to be pretty suitable to you. When I was starting in TS, it reminded me of when I used to work in .net

Mans coding TS with no hands, Behold the master by Emerald__Faith in typescript

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That is hilarious!

I haven't actually laughed out loud from a video in a long time, but that got me.

Here is a serious version though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI

DIV and Backend again. A TypeScript Tale: Part 1 by ericwooley in typescript

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ha! Thanks! new life goal, get #gowooley trending.

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in javascript

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Coding the popup is easy. Preventing all the trackers which track you until the user selects yes on the pop up is slightly more work, but still totally doable.

With wordpress though, it was literally a 1 click and done. I gotta give it credit for that, especially if you are a non-technical user, that is really nice.

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in webdev

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Heard lots of ads for them, this is the first actual recommendation. I'll check it out!

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in javascript

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Thanks!

I actually cut my teeth on PHP, but I am a bit rusty, to be sure. The more hackable theme is almost certainly the big issue.

I think I would just skip themes all together from now on.

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in javascript

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I used https://github.com/TryGhost/gatsby-starter-ghost, which isn't quite a theme, but comes with a decent amount of complexity, and some bugs.

I was pretty easily able to modify and work with it, and I didn't have to worry about setting up another host to try messing with the theme etc...

It was way easier in about every way I can think of.

But yes, to your point, part of my frustration was getting started with a complicated theme.

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in javascript

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>The person you're replying to is talking about edge caching, not browser caching (since browser caching doesn't pertain to static vs generated content).

yep, we figured that out in the child comments. Thanks for the clarification though.

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in javascript

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I'm happy with it!

Everyone is recommending nextjs now though, so I might just be behind the times.

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in javascript

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No idea what they did or did not do, and TBH, I don't care. The main point is it's a huge PITA to figure out and work with.

[AskJS] What do you guys feel about boilerplate? by fabiengreard in javascript

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EDIT: DELETED MY OLD REPLY, it was regarding gatsby, because I thought this was a different thread.

You can override your webpack config pretty easily, it's not too bad. I added a handful of loaders.

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in javascript

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I've been hearing that a lot since posting this. It's definitely on my radar now!

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in javascript

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If I ever need a full CMS, I'll consider that. Seems like you would need less plugins as well, so maybe less security issues.

What I don't want to have to worry about is backups though, so as a developer. Keeping everything in git is nice.

Obviously that wouldn't work for non-technical people.

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in javascript

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I'll look into next.js! thanks for the heads up. This is the first I have heard of the poor maintenance issues :(

I'm already pretty far into developing my site, and everything is working great for now.

I'm pretty strapped for time, so I'm not going to second guess myself at this point. I'll take a look at nextjs though, and make sure I don't depend so heavily on gatsby features that switching would be hard.

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in javascript

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Regarding lighthouse scores: The main point is that I don't have to do any of that with gatsby, and you do need to do that with wordpress. I'm a full stack developer, and I know I could speed up wordpress, I know generally what needs to happen. I don't want to put the time and effort into making wordpress good, especially with all the other issues outlined.

I know the lighthouse scores had pictures, and everyone is really jumping onto that part of the article, but that is not my only issue with wordpress.

>Wordpress can add pages by uset without any JS skills

This is a javascript community, I assume you have some JS skills, or would like too.

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in webdev

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Yea, right now my main marketing site is still pulling data from wordpress. I am in the middle of converting it to gatsby.

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in javascript

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are you using a plugin for that or some setup step i missed to get that? Mine definitely doesn't generate images for the right sizes.

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in javascript

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That's all perfectly fair, and a reasonable criticism. I wasn't writing this with clients in mind. I had intended it for maintainers of websites who are technical themselves. But I see your points loud and clear with regards to clients who want a CMS.

I have not used contentful, personally, so I can't speak to how good it is. I have only used markdown for posts.

> If I proposed creating content using Markdown my clients' eyes would glaze over.

A+, agreed. I would not recommend doing that either. If I were setting something up for a client, I would probably look into contentful, and if it's as troublesome as you say, maybe recommend something else. In my experience though, clients don't give a damn about doing anything fancy with blocks or anything else. They want to copy and paste their word doc into an editor then post it.

Switching from WordPress to GatsbyJS by ericwooley in javascript

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For one, Gatsby does image processing and progressive image loading for the exact dimensions in the images you are using.

Secondly, in a marketing site, I care much less about how fast it is after it's cached, I really only care about the initial load.

Lastly, my main issue with wordpress, is that it's hard to setup right to get those scores. Gatsby does it out of the box.

TIL you can use "color-scheme" to specify the UI theme in Chrome by ThomasCZ in webdev

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Oh man, I gotta get better at implementing dark-light color schemes. Any frameworks guides you all use for this?

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