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My open-source project hit 2k stars

Geon George on July 02, 2020

Okay, before you go ahead and look: I lied Let me explain :) https://iHateRegex.io/ is a project I launched in February this year. It is basicall...

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Tom Lasswell • Jul 3 '20

Fantastic. You're now actually over 2k.

Regex is such a complicated but powerful expression language. The fact you're not only providing the regex expression but explaining it visually is what makes this great.

Good luck in your future endeavors

Geon George • Jul 3 '20

Thank you Tom :)
Yeah, regex is hard to look at sometimes. Hence the name

Wannes Gennar • Jul 3 '20

Just a heads up that your email regex isn't 100% RFC compliant.
The "complex" email regex seems to cover most bases, but calling it "Unnecessarily complicated" makes me think that most people will use the simple version.

this article is an interesting read on the subject: davidcel.is/posts/stop-validating-...

Awesome project though! I've used some of your samples in past projects

maxloh • Jul 3 '20 • Edited

Will you open source the backend code behind embed.ihateregex.io too?

Also, it would be great if you add a license for the project, like the MIT license which is adopted by many frond end/JavaScript projects.

Luka Vidaković • Jul 3 '20

It was nice to read about your success story! Pretty useful product too. Congrats and keep up the good work :)

Geon George • Jul 4 '20

Thank you Luka

Leon Lafayette • Jul 2 '20

I like it!

Any more open source projects in the pipeline?

Geon George • Jul 2 '20 • Edited

Thank you!
I'd like to port that visualizer to canvas, giving it features like zoom, pan and stuff like google maps

Konstantin • Jul 2 '20

Great job!

Geon George • Jul 3 '20

Thank you :)

Mohammed J Hossain • Jul 2 '20

Hey, that's a cool project there! Love the idea and execution man!

Geon George • Jul 3 '20

Thank you, Mohammed :)

Eswari Jayakumar • Jul 3 '20

Great !!

Mike Talbot ⭐ • Jul 2 '20

It's just a brilliant thing.

Geon George • Jul 2 '20

Thank you :)

Evan Plaice • Jul 2 '20

Nice 👏👏👏

Geon George • Jul 2 '20 • Edited

Thank you Evan

Miguelángel Cabrera • Jul 3 '20

Congrats

Geon George • Jul 4 '20

Thank you :)

Ben Halpern • Jul 2 '20

Congrats

Geon George • Jul 2 '20

Thank you Ben :)

Pedro Couto • Jul 3 '20

Awesome work!

I've bookmarked it, cause I got the same problem as well!

Thanks a lot 😉

Geon George • Jul 4 '20

Haha thank you Pedro :)

Ankur V • Aug 4 '20

Congrats.
Thanks it very helpfull

Keff • Jul 3 '20

Wow, I remember trying it when you launched, I knew it would boom at some point, so congrats. It's a great tool, I forgot about it, but will be saving it for future use!