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Juho Vepsäläinen
Personal blog · survivejs.com/blogwebprogramming
Juho Vepsäläinen writes SurviveJS, a personal blog at survivejs.com about web and programming. Since 2015, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “SurviveJS – Webpack and React”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (23) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link SurviveJS as a free, practical introduction to webpack and React, often through a Kanban app build. Commenters call it a good starting point and say the webpack book reads quickly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 23 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Research and practice in web development by Juho Vepsäläinen: web rendering, performance, AI, and the web platform.
Most-linked posts?
- SurviveJS – Webpack and React9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2015-07-09
- SurviveJS – Webpack and React3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-07-16
- Redux – Reinventing Flux – Interview with Dan Abramov2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-14
- Mobservable: blazing fast Reactjs without Flux or immutable data structures2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-19
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-26
- SurviveJS - Webpack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-20
What Hacker News says?
I used the older React+Webpack version of https://survivejs.com/ to learn React recently. You build a small Kanban/Trello webapp.
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on “Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?”Submitted Interview with the author of React-like Inferno about JavaScript optimisations as a story · 79 points
HN discussionThe SurviveJS book is a good reference for this: http://survivejs.com/webpack_react/
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on “React.js Introduction for People Who Know Just Enough JQuery”Submitted DSS, a deterministic way to manage CSS as a story · 21 points
HN discussionThese resources have been very helpful to me: http://survivejs.com https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links https://github.com/HenrikJoreteg/hjs-webpack
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on “React Tutorial: Cloning Yelp”Submitted Redux – Reinventing Flux – Interview with Dan Abramov as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI tried survivejs but whole complexity and explanations started falling apart when flux and whole concept of provider was introduced. [1] http://survivejs.com/react/implementing-kanban/react-and-flu...
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on “Show HN: React Native Express – Learn React Native Through Interactive Examples”Submitted Mobservable: blazing fast Reactjs without Flux or immutable data structures as a story · 4 points
HN discussionQ: Should one get familiar/experienced with React[0][1] first before jumping into React Native dev? Or is this tutorial sufficiently stand-alone without React (web) experience? [0] http://survivejs.com/react/introduction/ [1] https://online.reacttraining.com/p/reactjsfundamentals
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on “Show HN: React Native Express – Learn React Native Through Interactive Examples”Submitted Kea: High Level Abstraction Between React and Redux. Interview with Marius Andra as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's really not difficult, it just looks more complicated than it is. If you want a good start, try the Webpack book by SurviveJS. You can read most of it in an hour or two and not only create a config but actually understand how webpack works: https://survivejs.com/webpack/introduction/ There are also slimmer/newer/zero config alternatives like: https://poi.js.org/ https://neutrino.js.org/ https://parceljs.org
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on “The State of JavaScript 2017”Submitted “SurviveJS – Webpack and React” v2.0 [BOOK] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you like a discrete control flow, then Polymer is a valid approach. TBH, if your application isn't beyond moderately complex, it doesn't matter too much which framework you choose as long as you have relatively clean separation of logic and control flows. React (with a flux-like control flow library, such as Redux) has a higher cognitive load to start. Where it shines is as additional features are added, there is…
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on “Introducing Shadow DOM API”Submitted Cycle.JS – Interview with André Staltz as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you want to get started with this stuff but you're feeling lost or overwhelmed then the free SurviveJS - Webpack and React book is a nice place to start! It covers many of these tools. http://survivejs.com
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on “The Hitchhiker's Guide to Modern JavaScript Tooling”Submitted RelativeCI – In-depth bundle stats analysis and monitoring – Interview as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://survivejs.com/webpack/
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on “Webpack 5”Submitted Deterministic Style Sheets (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI just finished going through this http://survivejs.com/webpack_react/introduction/ whole thing building a kanban board using react and altjs. It was really interesting, though a much simpler version of what was posted in the OP I learned a lot about webpack and react, and got to try a different flavor of flux I hadn't experimented with before (alt.js). I'm excited to dive into the OPs tutorial however. It looks rea…
Comment linking /webpack_react/introduction/
on “Trello clone with Phoenix and React – 5-part tutorial”Submitted Fluture – Fantasy Land Compliant Alternative to Promises as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI just started on http://survivejs.com/ which does that. Have yet to make a comparison with React for Beginners though.
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on “Show HN: React for Beginners”Submitted Redux-First Router – Just Dispatch Actions – Interview with James Gillmore as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://survivejs.com/webpack_react/webpack_compared/ https://medium.com/@housecor/browserify-vs-webpack-b3d7ca08a...
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on “React/JavaScript fatigue”Submitted ES Modules – Interview with Bradley Farias as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI just self-published my first book ( http://survivejs.com/ ). Writing books is way harder than people think. Writing isn't enough as you need to tackle other aspects, such as marketing and sales, as well. If you are not native, you have the extra challenge of learning to write. In short, it's definitely possible to earn a living out of technical writing. Getting started is the hardest part. If you don't have a repu…
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on “Ask HN: Is it possible to live off technical writing?”Submitted SurviveJS – Webpack 2.0 – Free web book and more as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI strongly agree. I had to set up a React application not so long ago and the Webpack docs were completely useless. I ended up following a step by step guide made by someone else, which was really easy to follow and reason about: http://survivejs.com/webpack_react/developing_with_webpack/
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on “What's New in Webpack 2”Submitted How to succeed at Technical Books? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSurviveJS book, you can read it online for free: http://survivejs.com/webpack_react/introduction/ http://survivejs.com/ Full-Stack Redux Tutorial: http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial...
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on “Ask HN: What are some good React tutorials?”Submitted SurviveJS – Webpack and React as a story · 2 points
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