housecor

I was using an Apple store employee's term. He claimed the "standard" configurations listed on the website are what we should typically expect in the store initially. Later, they'll stock popular customizations. FWIW, I've been unable to find a single "non-standard" machine in stock at a store in my cursory checks.

Thanks for pointing this out. Corrected.

You're right. You wouldn't care about everything in npm. The point is this: When using Gulp/Grunt, we have to search for a plugin. This greatly limits our selection.

My Angular 2 vs React post from Medium is currently on the front page of Hacker News and Reddit/r/javascript. I give Medium's platform some credit for that. Their tagging system helps get the ball rolling. It seems to provide enough eyes that someone is likely to submit it to the big aggregators. For many smaller bloggers, it's hard to get over that hump. I hit the front page a couple times on my personal blog, but most the time my posts just didn't get enough initial attention to create any buzz. I've been very impressed with my reach on Medium compared to my ~3 year old, post once/month .NET/JavaScript blog. In just one day today, my post got as many views as my biggest post of all time on my blog.

That said, there are cracks showing. Medium has begun removing features many loved. They pulled the full-bleed images that elegantly faded away as your scrolled down. They removed public inline annotations by the author. And any comments people make inline now cannot be made public anymore (very frustrating). All were unique features that drew me there. They're trying to simplify, but I feel they went too far.

That said, the writing experience is seriously luxurious compared to Wordpress. So that combined with the increased reach has me hooked...for now.

Do you have an alternative approach to propose?

"the language specs are dramatically inflated by the addition of HTML grammar."

The language specs are unaffected. JSX is simply compiled down to JavaScript.