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It's not that their API is convoluted, but generally what is being generated by a developer is. It's easy to fall down the jQuery rabbit hole, and start making
by overcast 10y ago
It's not that their API is convoluted, but generally what is being generated by a developer is. It's easy to fall down the jQuery rabbit hole, and start making messy decisions, by just using every possible thing available. Reminds me a lot of early PHP developers, writing spaghetti code because it's easy to do so. I'm currently in the process of converting some of my OWN 10+ year old PHP to Node, and it's difficult to sift through it all. My experience with reading a lot of jQuery stuff is similar. Easy to pick up, and do a lot of magic, which means easy to make a mess.
- amagumori 10y agoIf anything node is a hugely magnified version of jQuery in that respect. Instead of using 200 different jquery functions to do stuff, you're using 200 different npm libraries to do stuff.