A Safe Place To Host My Various Shortform Video Content!
Everything is this repo tries to be coherent and typesafe.
TRPC coupled with Zod helps me write minimal actual types, and have the edges of the application be validated and consumed safely.
Tailwind lets me keep the CSS footprint small, and prevent context switching by embedding the styles into the markup.
React. Yep React. Powered by Next.
I know, pretty boring. But boring and functional beats interesting/complex/flakey any day. I do actually want to finish this project at some point!
The slight difference here is that I aim to keep React as solely the view layer. Basically a JSX wrapper for displaying data and funneling user interaction into actions.
The controversial aim is to never use a useState or useEffect directly. useEffect in particular is the source of 100% (statistically true most of the time) of the bugs in an application. Keeping the usage of these 2 hooks to an absolute minimum sounds like a strange choice, but I see this UI as being simple enough to be able to be mostly server driven.
Another annoying React scented issue is Context. Very useful in normal React apps to provide the plumbing of state and between components, but damn is there a lot of boilerplate to get this working!
In this app to avoid that boilerplate, I'll use Jotai. In Jotai, you can use atoms which can be shared between components in a similar way.
The only drawback is the power of localising Context state around specific components, but really, how often is that needed?!