A little over a decade ago, I went on a binge and made a bunch of web apps of various sorts:

• EditThis.info wiki hosting
• Cueflash flashcards study system
• ConstantSail pirate and trading game
• And atari combat and ast...

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Want to have your server update itself whenever you deploy to a github branch? Piece of cake:

https://github.com/RobKohr/github-hook-handler

I used Grommet for a react project, and here are some of my thoughts on it.

Things I like

• Works out of the box for most use cases
• Nice for form elements
• Gives a standard look and feel for the site without any need to work out details

Things I don't like

• A ...

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When doing react, I have on worked with CRA up until now. I just took over a next.js app, and when built and deployed, it is speedy, but didn't like some of the details of development:

• myApp/pages/page-name/index.js is how you create a route for /page-name. While quick and friendly, I prefer t...

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