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Jack Herrington

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Jack Herrington

@jherr

Coder & YouTuber ・ youtube.com/@jherr ・ TanStack AI / Create TanStack App

Happy Valley, OR

Joined June 2007

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Jack Herrington
@jherr
Apr 27
Folks keep asking for an IRL use case for @tan_stack Start RSCs. Ok, here you go; partial page caching. CDN cache bust or TTL your pages at a component level granularity. I kept talking about it, but not showing it, so here is a deep dive video with code.
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Jack Herrington
@jherr
May 2, 2024
Just got a real DSLR to replace your webcam and you are wondering where to set the lens, what aperture to use, and how far away you should be to get the right depth of field? Wonder no more! jherr.github.io/depth-of-field/ Drag around the sliders and dial in your bokeh.
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Jack Herrington
@jherr
Dec 18, 2022
Next move for @twitter would be to ban folks for recommending Tailwind over Bootstrap. 🤣
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Jack Herrington
@jherr
Jul 29, 2023
you should never ever roll your own auth and display: grid was/is overrated
Theo - t3.gg
@theo
Jul 28, 2023
Quote tweet this with your spiciest web dev take
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Jack Herrington
@jherr
Sep 1, 2023
Some days are good coding days, some are bad. I just spent an hour debugging an issue where I just forgot a return statement.
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Jack Herrington
@jherr
May 12, 2025
For the past five weeks I've been basically working full time on create-tsrouter-app for @tan_stack. * Complete re-factor of how apps are built * Supports adding add-ons to an existing application * Supports custom add-ons so that any library author can create add-ons (a la
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Jack Herrington
@jherr
Mar 22, 2024
A core issue with JavaScript is that it's built on a lie; you don't need to worry about memory management. That lie didn't matter early on when we were validating forms. It mattered a little with jQuery and the rise of `this` and `self`. But with frameworks like React it's
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Jack Herrington
@jherr
Jan 20, 2023
Just being included in State of JS 2022 is such a huge honor. I'm still in a kind of shock. Thank you all so much!
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Jack Herrington
@jherr
May 24, 2022
Micro-Frontend architecture for @reactjs both with build-time dependencies, and runtime, react router 6, shared state with Zustand, and so much more! Built incrementally to help you understand it step-by-step. With free source code!
Jack Herrington
@jherr
Aug 19, 2024
To Big Red, my sister who passed last night and who was my role model throughout my life. We don't know yet what took her so unexpectedly. But I'm going to focus on what an amazing person Jenny was. She spent her life in service to others. Raising two amazing boys, and some
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Jack Herrington
@jherr
May 24, 2023
Gotta love the honesty.
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Jack Herrington
@jherr
Oct 1, 2025
Looking for a @nextjs alternative? I've put together migration rules for agentic IDEs and it does a pretty good job at a first pass.
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Jack Herrington
@jherr
Jun 19, 2024
Seriously? I have no idea who you are talking about or what those interactions were. But I'm concerned with the now, and in the now, this tweet and the original tweet are actively dissuading folks from creating content. "Programming advice" is bad now? Reacting to programming
ThePrimeagen
@ThePrimeagen
Jun 18, 2024
100% i think the large "fall" of previous tech twitter was that it was just a bread stick. it was completely unrelatable. they were just gods among men dispensing wisdom nuggets / programming advice / courses to buy. my worst interactions ever were meeting my heroes and
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Jack Herrington
@jherr
Mar 28, 2025
I don't really understand the RSC hate. You're getting angry at a tool. If you don't need it, just don't use it. RSC is just another option for serializing and hydrating JSX and interactive components. I get that the NextJS App Router approach to using the RSC functionality
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