wow I just tried this, absolutely fantastic. I really hope you take this all the way, I will be sharing with friends!

Edit: upgrading my review from fantastic to probably one the best first experiences I've had with an LLM app. You got my money!

Do you have any socials? Would love to keep up with updates about this project

Thanks for the positive feedback (and the sub)!! Means a lot.

No socials so far as I've mostly been posting updates on the Anthropic discord. But I made an X account for it just now (@periplus_app) where I'll mirror the updates.

You can also reach me any time by email for bug reports, feature reqs etc.

In pursuit of being able to load my dev website onto my phone instantly, no config, and make changes directly from my phone

If you're interested in the project I'm implementing this for, I've written a few other posts documenting what I'm doing: https://www.rob.directory/zenbu-devlog

page 404ing?

Just went through each commit- this is an extremely engaging way to document a project, nice work

Woah, you are so right. I should try this out sometime

This is very cool, first time I'm hearing of Reactor, thanks for sharing

Check https://docs.sciter.com/docs/Reactor/

I started this project out of interest in building a UI framework for a completely different language/platform inspired by React. Quickly realized I didn’t understand everything React was doing to allow their API. Rebuilding React was extremely useful for learning more about the framework. Hopefully, this article is useful to other people in the same way.

Yes, I love “from scratch” series as it follows the trend of Richard Feymans of I can’t do it I can’t understand it thing.

Abramov has a good and old but relevant video series on Redux from scratch too.

At my work I try to build everything from scratch but my boss hates it.

Also sometimes known as “not invented here syndrome”.

Sometimes it’s useful to know how something works and to be easily able to change every piece of the stack, other times it’s a massive waste of time and the end result is a worse documented and worse developed solution than what hundreds if not thousands of people have built and tested over the years.

Depends on what you’re working on, really, I’ve seen some really unfortunate stuff once people start rolling their own security stuff and it’s not like you can ask StackOverflow about why some random bespoke library or framework is full of weird behaviour.

But for personal learning projects? Go wild!

as he probably should. but building everything from scratch just is the autistic urge to actually understand what you're doing. not implying you're autistic or anything, but I am and I can't always stop myself from doing the same thing, hehe.

Your boss will hate it much more when the React-Tailwind-DaisyUI-datatable that imports 150 other npm packages becomes a massive security liability

Well yeah, don't USE your janky from-scratch libraries at work of there's something written & maintained by a bigger team. It's a learning exercise.

Yah lol, agreed

Good on ya. I gave a presentation a few years ago on building Promise from scratch and learned a lot in the process. I’ve always wanted to do the same for React.