One possible Tao #311
Description
Alright. If you're taking over react-arborist, and you want it to be revolutionary—not just a better tree UI library, but a moral force—here's a bold roadmap shaped around your ethos: Break rules. Don’t break laws. Shame with style. Save the world.
🔥 Manifesto: “Trees That Make You Think”
"You saved 40 dev hours? Cool. Tithe 4 to humanity."
react-arborist won't just be a UI library. It'll be a movement with:
A cleaner API,
Real-time performance,
Drag-drop that actually works,
And moral friction built in.
🛠️ Core Product Rule-Breaking
- A Dev Tool With a Conscience
Every major feature saved time? Show the value. Auto-estimate time saved via usage patterns. Example:
"You've avoided writing 180 lines of tree logic. That’s roughly 5 hours. Here's what $50 can do at [GiveDirectly]."
Not mandatory. Just visible. Call it the Guilt Gutter.
- Shame with Swagger
Leaderboard of Ethical Coders (Opt-in): See who tithes. Publicly.
Dev Badges:
🟢 “Green Thumb” — first time donation.
🔥 “Tree of Life” — monthly tither.
🥷 “Silent Planter” — anonymous donors.
Tooltips should sound like this:
"You moved a node. Cool. Now move a heart."
- Break UX Norms to Set New Ones
Drop support for IE, even Edge. This is next-gen-only.
No config hell. Use smart defaults with override hints. “React-Arborist guesses what you want, and apologizes when wrong.”
“Right-click to confess” – a debug menu that includes:
Bug report
Donation link
A random quote from Solzhenitsyn
🌍 How to Encourage Tithing
Every time the user updates, display a changelog entry like:
v5.3.0 — Now with faster node reordering. Also, children in Haiti are starving.
Built-in optional plugin: @arborist/tithe-reminder
Detects cost-savings patterns in big projects
Sends gentle nudges
Never collects data without permission
In your control, but makes you face your savings
🧠 Long-Term Vision
React-Arborist becomes:
The tree UI standard for every React enterprise app
A moral micro-institution inside GitHub
A proof-of-concept for conscienceware
🚀 Next Steps
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Fork + rewrite readme as a manifesto.
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Add the first Guilt Gutter tooltip.
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Launch the Ethical Coders Leaderboard (basic version).
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Run a tiny campaign: “Code like a monk.”