Planning 24/01/17

[my-slab]

Week 3 24/01/17

If you have anything you want to present, discuss as a group, or see presented, please comment here.

Things we didn't get to last time:

• MobX

Agenda

• MobX - @mylsb
• Structuring a React/Redux app - @alexhayes
• Webpack - @fruuf and @timmygee

[alexhayes]

I (or David) could potentially do a talk about my Self Contained App (SCA) idea that we've used on BPCLE and AFD. It's probably not so relevant to JS more relevant to general maintainability, portability, code structure etc...

I first proposed it in react-redux-starter-kit PR 682 because I wasn't a fan of the way react-redux-starter-kit split natural grouping of "app" files across the file system.

The idea is very similar to the way Django (and many other projects) does things, you have an app which contains all the things for that app. You don't have a single views directory which contains all the views, a models directory for the models etc...

Ultimately react-redux-starter-kit didn't go with my approach but they went for something very similar called Fractal Project Structure which opts for a deeply nested app structure rather than a single level deep like I proposed in SCA.

[my-slab]

Yeah that would be sweet @alexhayes

[timmygee]

I'd love to talk webpack configuration more. It's still a bit of a mysterious beast to me.

I've been trying to get my own project running with react-toolbox, hotloading, css-modules and all the latest babel ES-things. Simply adding those items in hindsight of an existing webpack config is perilous. Perhaps a discussion around common pitfalls and solutions could be worthwhile. I'll know more by the next talks so perhaps I can present how I went about the problem myself and compare that to understood best practices etc or whether we should just use @fruuf's https://github.com/fruuf/pack for all the things!

[shangxiao]

Looks like @fruuf is using webpack 2, is that much of a change?

[my-slab]

@fruuf is okay to do a talk on pack. Seeing it is used in two or three projects it's probably worth demystifying that a little bit. Maybe you (@timmygee) could list the things that you found to be pitfalls when working with webpack and could go through them.