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KenanSulayman
... and the page is blank when using it without scripts turned on.

Nevertheless, beautifully designed project.

ericwood
I'd say that's very acceptable given it's a promotion page for a JS library that shows live examples of the library in use.
peacetreefrog
cool, sorry if this is dumb/obvious, but how does this fit with reflexbox (another react grid system by the same author)? do they complement each other? or is this a better version of reflexbox? or do you use one or the other depending on your goals? thanks,
tomelders
I'm not sure that grids have a role to play in single page web apps. But I'm convinced that React only has a role to play in SPA's (or self contained widgets).
badkungfu
> I'm convinced that React only has a role to play in SPA's (or self contained widgets)

Convinced by what? Many do use it outside of SPAs.

tomelders
I'm convinced by the fact that React makes the complex simple, and the simple complex.

I make web apps most of the time, and I love React. React + Redux is my goto architecture and I don't think there's anything out there to rival it.

But I don't see any sense in using it to create a blog, or a promotional website, or any other kind of website that is essentially a web version of something that could also live in print.

You're right, many people do use it outside of SPA's, but I think it's a case of; If all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

pluma
> But I'm convinced that React only has a role to play in SPA's

Why? You can even use it for static site generation or purely server-rendered websites. You're probably thinking of jQuery.

dcd0101
Both of those confuse me. jQuery's peak popularity as a stand-alone resource was before SPA's were even a thing.
whistlerbrk
Not sure about anyone else but the "Dont", "Repeat", "Yourself" page is not rendering correctly, the bar is a significant distance removed from Don't compared to Repeat and Yourself. Not sure why, code is identical, but I didn't inspect...
edabot
It's not identical. The p values change from 4 to 2.
mxstbr
Yeah the "Don't" has <Box p={4} />, the "repeat" p={3} and the "yourself" p={2}!
Raphmedia
They might want to make their navigation more oblivious. I totally missed the fact that this page was a slideshow and that there were little green arrows at the bottom right corner.