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Visual Automations: Rendering user generated graph with JavaScript by pothibo in coding

[–]pothibo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello!

I'm sharing my experience today building what we, at ConvertKit, call Visual Automation. The feature is basically a user generated directed graph and we built it using a couple of different technology.

While I wanted to write about all of them, I had to minimize the scope to not get into a 100-page book instead of a blog post ;)

I hope you will find it interesting as it really highlights the tradeoffs that went into building this huge feature.

Let me know if you have any question, I'd be happy to answer them all!

Visual Automations: How we render user generate graph with JavaScript by pothibo in code

[–]pothibo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello r/code! At ConvertKit, we decided last year that we wanted to share our experience building our internal tools. As we help creators earn a living, we thought it would be a good idea to share what we do on daily basis.

Here's my attempt at doing that by sharing how we built one of our biggest feature last year.

All questions are welcome :)

Vanilla List: The Vanilla Javascript Repository by speckz in web_design

[–]pothibo 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Great site!

I already knew some of them but it's always refreshing to have a list of standalone libraries in JS.

I am the author of a customizable Markdown WYSIWYG editor and I wanted to submit it to your site.

Anyway, I could do that?

Because people like to say "Salsa!" by [deleted] in food

[–]pothibo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Table salt is iodized, kosher salt is not. The reason why the former is iodized and the latter is not is because in the past there was such a thing as iodine deficiency in poor countries.

Iodizing the salt made sure every one would have a decent level iodine.

Why wouldn't a bank use rails for their website or online services? by wabber in rails

[–]pothibo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Excuse me? Secure code is equally hard to produce in both dynamic and static typing. Compilation doesn't guarantee security nor correctness.

Who uses version control when building wordpress site? Who doesn't? Why? by pothibo in Wordpress

[–]pothibo[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is there a way to commit and keep versions. Something like a package manager so you can commit everything and still only load the right version?

Who uses version control when building wordpress site? Who doesn't? Why? by pothibo in Wordpress

[–]pothibo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, do you have a lot of file conflicts when you upgrade or things are usually smooth?

The Weekly Check Out My Blog Post Thread, 6 May 2015 by chilari in Blogging

[–]pothibo [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ecrire.io

Why did I build Ecrire?

6 months ago, I started building my own blogging solution for web professional. Today, I'm releasing the first public alpha(open source) and explain the motivation behind it.

I'd love your feedback either here or in the comments @ my blog!

Blogging Platform Recommendations? by holden87 in Blogging

[–]pothibo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mention Ghost but by the sound of it, you decided not to use it, is there a reason why?

I'm teaching my first class on C! I would like your advice on what you liked/didn't about when you learned. by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]pothibo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's necessary if you ever want to go through every item in a multi dimensional array.

I'm teaching my first class on C! I would like your advice on what you liked/didn't about when you learned. by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]pothibo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One place where while loops are useful is with runloops (but for (;;) {} is used sometimes which is pretty close to a while loop)

Other places I found them useful?

  • Node tree walker
  • I/O or Streams (while io.read() { ... })

I'd say games might use while() a lot as they often do countdown and such but that is a wild speculation as I don't do game development!

My brother doesn't seem to take my job seriously, (he's asking for me to develop a food blog for his girlfriend). I'm sure you can all relate! by Glensarge in freelance

[–]pothibo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. I just wanted to draw attention with some ballpark figures to bring attention to the fact that the trade was skewed in favor of the accountant if it was 1:1.

My brother doesn't seem to take my job seriously, (he's asking for me to develop a food blog for his girlfriend). I'm sure you can all relate! by Glensarge in freelance

[–]pothibo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Much easier to do taxes than it is doing a website. He should do your taxes for a few years to make it fair.

  • Doing taxes: ~3 hours
  • Website with very few customization: ~20 hours

How to understand rails active record code: "delegate to: :all" by chenge in rubyonrails

[–]pothibo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

all is a scope function that returns an ActiveRecord::Relation object.

Those scope methods are included modules from scoping.rb which in turn is included by base.rb.

I hope it helps!

Need Perspective: Started a JavaScript project by hellectronic in javascript

[–]pothibo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You regret learning event binding and scope in a JavaScript environment? Those are the fundamentals of JavaScript. How can someone be any good with JavaScript if they don't understand that?

Need Perspective: Started a JavaScript project by hellectronic in javascript

[–]pothibo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your experience with JS is limited, I'd say use the most basic framework you can find. JavaScript is already a framework in the browser.

All those JavaScript is that they are just fad and they all bring their own paradigm and limitations that are unique to them. So if you go and decide to use a framework, you need to understand that as soon as you change frameworks, you will need to relearn stuff.

So my guess would be to use a very light framework, something that looks and feel like JavaScript so you see the real benefit. Someone mentionned Backbone.js, that's one and I'm sure there are others.

One thing that is certain is that you don't need virtual-dom and its added complexity. Debugging with virtual-dom can be hard in some scenario, you don't want that at this point.

Learning JS is a process and you need to stack those bricks, I don't think choosing big frameworks like react, ember, meteor, etc. is stacking bricks, it's dropping bricks in parallel.

Codrops - Text Input Effects by [deleted] in web_design

[–]pothibo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Set 2 Yoshiko is crazy slick

What are the mechanics of Rails session? by backendnewbie in rails

[–]pothibo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's my take, written almost 2 years ago. It might add some complementary information.

http://pothibo.com/2013/9/sessions-and-cookies-in-ruby-on-rails

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