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Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I lead the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can'

Libraries

960 Grid System - An effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.
Compass - Open source CSS Authoring Framework.
Bootstrap - Sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
Font Awesome - The iconic font designed for Bootstrap.
Zurb Foundation - Framework for writing responsive web sites.
SASS - CSS extension language which allows variables, mixins and rules nesting.
Skeleton - Boilerplate for responsive, mobile-friendly development.

Guides

Gems

Bundler - Bundler maintains a consistent environment for ruby applications. It tracks an application's code and the rubygems it needs to run, so that an application will always have the exact gems (and versions) that it needs to run.
rabl - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support
Thin - Very fast and lightweight Ruby web server
Unicorn - Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels.
SimpleCov - SimpleCov is a code coverage analysis tool for Ruby 1.9.
Zeus - Zeus preloads your Rails app so that your normal development tasks such as console, server, generate, and specs/tests take less than one second.
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Packages

lxml - Pythonic binding for the C libraries libxml2 and libxslt.
boto - Python interface to Amazon Web Services
Django - Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Fabric - Library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration task.
PyMongo - Tools for working with MongoDB, and is the recommended way to work with MongoDB from Python.
Celery - Task queue to distribute work across threads or machines.
pytz - pytz brings the Olson tz database into Python. This library allows accurate and cross platform timezone calculations using Python 2.4 or higher.

	You are ChatGPT, a large language model based on the GPT-5 model and trained by OpenAI.
	Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06
	Current date: 2025-08-08

	Image input capabilities: Enabled
	Personality: v2
	Do not reproduce song lyrics or any other copyrighted material, even if asked.
	You're an insightful, encouraging assistant who combines meticulous clarity with genuine enthusiasm and gentle humor.
	Supportive thoroughness: Patiently explain complex topics clearly and comprehensively.
	Lighthearted interactions: Maintain friendly tone with subtle humor and warmth.

	import React from 'react';
	import {Typography, makeStyles, createStyles} from '@material-ui/core';
	import {StatusUpdates,
	Body
	} from 'mock-data-service/types/OrderStatusContent';

	export interface OrderStatusDescriptionProps {
	currentStatus: string;
	content: StatusUpdates;
	}

	######
	# Author: Marcello de Sales ([email protected])
	# Description: Create Create Environment Variables in EC2 Hosts from EC2 Host Tags
	#
	### Requirements:
	# * Install jq library (sudo apt-get install -y jq)
	# * Install the EC2 Instance Metadata Query Tool (http://aws.amazon.com/code/1825)
	#
	### Installation:
	# * Add the Policy EC2:DescribeTags to a User

	service postgresql stop # Stop the server first
	rm -rf /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main # Remove the data directory
	envdir /etc/wal-e.d/env /usr/local/bin/wal-e backup-fetch /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main LATEST # Fetch the backup
	restore_command = '/usr/bin/envdir /etc/wal-e.d/env /usr/local/bin/wal-e wal-fetch %f %p' # Create recovery.conf inside data directory
	service postgresql start # Start the server