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Dove into react and redux and built a couple of small apps. They are amazing not because they add some "fancy" features but because they train you to think with a different, much cleaner and simpler, mindset. Before your brain "clicks" you feel miserable. After it does you think "why on earth isn't everybody using this??" and any problem is solvable by dispatching actions and building reducers (thank you Redux!). Three days ago I spent a couple of hours on Meteor's simple-todos tutorial, trying to understand how everything was working (that is, at an abstract level). I felt great after finishing it. Two days ago I started building a service we'd like to launch within a couple of months, e-commerce like stuff. I felt miserable. Pushed the first "draft" with a customized sign up and I felt like I had no idea how to proceed. Yesterday I spent 4 more hours, started using packages like autoform, collection2, something for bootstrap, iron-router etc. and I feel FREAKING GREAT. Again my brain clicked and now I implemented ~70% of the features with validation, defensive checks on the server for security, nice-looking popups, good overall UI... I mean, I intended it to be a prototype, maybe mocking some parts but, damn, we basically already have a MVP! In 3 days (effectively ~12 hours)! And now I already know how to implement the rest, it just feels natural now. Like when you have a solid plan and you think it through in your head and you KNOW how to implement each and every step of it. You can hit a wall with Meteor as much as you can with any other framework (I mostly use Django). It's all about reading the docs, looking at what the community is doing and try to adhere to some "guidelines" (if there's no standard way of doing something). I will let you know how it scales when we reach a couple million users (bazinga!). |
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