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A one-click installer sounds great but creating it is not the hard bit, its choosing what goes into it. Its not just the Cambrian explosion of JS frameworks and
by duncanawoods 10y ago
A one-click installer sounds great but creating it is not the hard bit, its choosing what goes into it. Its not just the Cambrian explosion of JS frameworks and plugins but the whole stack of external dependencies from databases, monitoring, build, testing and deploy.
There have been lots of attempts that pick a stack e.g. Angular-seed for the MEAN stack but they make so many questionable choices that they don't have any longevity. At one point it might have looked sensible but now Mongo is out of favour and React has the ascendancy.
Maybe it needs an organisation like a Linux distribution, e.g. Ubuntu For Web, that chooses a complete end to end stack, develops missing glue, maintains forks when necessary and gives some sort of maintenance guarantee for LTS releases and supports upgrade paths.
- rorykoehler 10y agoJS is a mess. Even though there are standards they are implemented in such a way that it is virtually impossible to keep up with for a non-seasoned dev. The tools we use change quicker than ever, major changes all the time breaking everything that came before, tutorials out of date the week after they are written, new syntax that is widely used but not official meaning we have to transpile everything. Everything mentioned is just another obstacle in the way for a new dev to get started coding. By the time they've setup their dev environment most will have lost all their enthusiasm.