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Management team is here http://appendto.com/team/ I guess go ahead and find where one of them contributed to prop 8 or something. According to the readme, the guy only worked on the repo for a week while he worked there. Shouldn't be too hard to redo a week's worth of work. Maybe easier than undoing the damage being done to appendto's reputation by their scumbag policies.

Yes, exactly. I wrote my comment before I read yours. Repasting it here... I wish there were more books and series like "Language A for language B programmers". Whenever I'm trying to learn a new language, I have to sift through resources and filter out all the fluff which stems from an assumption it is my FIRST programming language and tries to teach me what a for loop is. What's more, one's proficiency in language A can be leveraged by explaining some constructs of language B in terms of concepts that exist in A, pointing out specific traps, caveats, "false friends" etc. I mean something like this: http://appendto.com/2010/10/how-good-c-habits-can-encourage-bad-javasc… http://blog.boyet.com/blog/javascriptlessons/?p=5 Or this: http://www.bobtacoindustries.com/Content/Devs/CsToCpp-ASomewhatShortGu… Favorite quote: Templates are sort of like .NET generics except that they aren't. :))

If you'd like to use google sheets with React for free, I wrote this: https://appendto.com/2018/08/the-simple-stack-a-primer-on-using-react-…

Your own source for the fourth point, the map of offices, actually does show an office in upstate New York. Look again at http://appendto.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/100-Remote.png

The company is AppendTo. "In appendTo, we’ve constructed our business model to encourage our staff to keep an effective and balanced schedule. The definition of work-life balance is unique for each person, but we’ve built our organization with the features and tools that empowers our employees to customize their interaction with appendTo to their needs. This manifests itself many ways, from flex time to giving our engineers time to work on personal growth or open source projects." -- http://appendto.com/company/values/

> That issue you linked to is 4 years old and is clearly a reflection of the poster being unfamiliar with React/JSX And yet the underlying issues still remain unaddressed. There aren't better ways to handle the cases raised in that issue, which is why people resort to adding additional non-standard syntax to work around the warts. > Also, I'm not entirely sure what the do/while plugin has to do with JSX. The "do" keyword is not do/while, it's a non-standard language feature that you can use to turn statements into expressions by wrapping them. It's like using an IIFE with a return value so that you can use a conventional "if" or "for" statement in place in JSX. > I would argue if you can write your code as easily with template literals as React/JSX your application isn't complex enough to warrant using a framework. I don't think you really understand how template literals work. Tagged templates can be used for more than just basic string interpolation. You can read more on the subject here: https://appendto.com/2017/02/advanced-javascript-es2015-template-strin… Or have a look at t7, which uses tagged template literals for virtual DOM templating: https://github.com/trueadm/t7