I am very confused. I am using a Mac for work and I am using Windows at home. And after reading the readme, I am still not sure what this thing does. Can someone explain?
> People should fear being destitute its the natural human condition.
People should die of diseases, its the natural human condition. Women should die in childbirth, its the natural human condition. Men should die in wars, its the natural human condition. People should be hunted by sabre-tooth tigers, its the natural human condition.
Well, yes. You can write a web application in Haskell and enjoy the beautiful and flexible type system, first order functions, monads and all the other wonderful things. But you shouldn't. Because when you leave, the client will never be able to find someone to maintain the damn thing and chances are they will hire someone else to rewrite it yet again in PHP. And possibly hire someone to make a voodoo doll of you and stick pins up its ass.
None. That's the point. Web development is not simple. You don't have to always use the very latest super framework, but even the minimal setup for developing a modern website has quite a few moving pieces. If you remove any component from the list above, your development experience will become harder.
So... let me get this straight. You are making a website. You do need to load some changing data into it, so just a static site will not cut it. But we want to keep things simple. All we really need are a few AJAX calls and some DOM updates. And just like the author mentioned we don't want to write old clunky JS, we want to write beautiful ES6 code. So we install babel for ES6. And we install jQuery to do our AJAX and DOM stuff. Turns out that if we want to make AJAX calls to our API server, we cannot just load the file in the browser, it expects a server. We look briefly at installing nginx or apache and it seems like a lot of trouble. But we do discover webpack dev server. That's perfect. So we install webpack and configure the dev server. Since we are doing it, we might as well make it run babel for us. And while at it, we might as well do the bundling. Especially, since we would like to use a couple of other NPM modules. Nothing major, just convenience things. And since we are using the dev server anyway, we add hot-reload support. And a minifier, so we can have a minified production build.
So now we are using HTML, CSS, jQuery, babel, webpack, webpack dev server, webpack hot reload plugin, webpack plugins to load resources and a minifier. But hey, keep it simple, right?
Most tools out there allow you to shoot yourself in the face. In this case, the guy replaced client-side JavaScript (very notorious for its amazing face shooting abilities) with server-side PHP (also, a very notorious face shooter).
shrug, I wish I could do that. But for 99% of all my friends and family members Facebook is the social network of choice. All events are planned and organized on it, all the personal news and status changes are posted on it, most of person to person communications are using the messenger, etc. My brother has deleted his account on several occasions, but he keeps having to re-create it simply because he doesn't want to get cut off from all the family communication.
I see what you did there :)