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I've dealt with many technology stacks. If this is the future, we're F#$$%. Seriously, how can people be blasting older technology like Flash and Flex (which w

by keyle 10y ago

I've dealt with many technology stacks. If this is the future, we're F#$$%. Seriously, how can people be blasting older technology like Flash and Flex (which was GREAT), out of the water for not using web standards and then this Frankenstein of a "stack" is going so mainstream. Sure, there is the VM problem, but the language was good and so was the framework. This looks horrendous and scary. Imagine maintaining this for the next 10 years when "the standards" will have moved on to you "next gen" javascript "framework". My only way to write web apps has been using micro frameworks, jquery, and small libs that do one thing and one thing only. I can handle serving pages with Go thanks, and I don't need a routing system that looks like a vintage joke. Sorry if I sound jaded, I've been doing this for 15 years.

zxcvcxz 10y ago
Can you post one of your projects?
- keyle 10y ago
  I currently work for large company (in Fortune 100) and behind NDA, I can't really show my stuff. But it's good work. I wrote my own data binding library, beyond that, it's all micro libs. What's your point?
throwanem 10y ago
This isn't mainstream; it's barely behind the bleeding edge. Mainstream is Express, Angular 1.5, and Browserify, and you can have it up and running in five minutes, maybe fifteen if you don't have Node installed.
dwaltrip 10y ago
You should check out http://mithril.js.org/ http://mithril.js.org/. It's been around for a few years, it's very lightweight with a small API, not opinionated, and surprisingly powerful. It doesn't have all the wiz bang gadgets right of the box, but it provides the fundamentals you need for a well designed, full-fledged frontend app. I've enjoyed using it a lot the past few months on a few small projects, and I'm also using it for a larger project that I've just started working on. Oh also, I haven't even bothered with a build tool or anything yet (I find the current js build tool landscape rather dismal). Turns out it is surprisingly easy to get by with <script src="..."> lines into index.html for smaller/mid-sized apps =) The only thing I've really missed so far is SASS.

by keyle 10y ago

zxcvcxz 10y ago

Can you post one of your projects?

keyle 10y ago
I currently work for large company (in Fortune 100) and behind NDA, I can't really show my stuff. But it's good work. I wrote my own data binding library, beyond that, it's all micro libs. What's your point?

throwanem 10y ago

This isn't mainstream; it's barely behind the bleeding edge. Mainstream is Express, Angular 1.5, and Browserify, and you can have it up and running in five minutes, maybe fifteen if you don't have Node installed.

dwaltrip 10y ago

You should check out http://mithril.js.org/ http://mithril.js.org/. It's been around for a few years, it's very lightweight with a small API, not opinionated, and surprisingly powerful. It doesn't have all the wiz bang gadgets right of the box, but it provides the fundamentals you need for a well designed, full-fledged frontend app. I've enjoyed using it a lot the past few months on a few small projects, and I'm also using it for a larger project that I've just started working on. Oh also, I haven't even bothered with a build tool or anything yet (I find the current js build tool landscape rather dismal). Turns out it is surprisingly easy to get by with <script src="..."> lines into index.html for smaller/mid-sized apps =) The only thing I've really missed so far is SASS.