A long time ago (7-10 years ago) Web 2.0 was the craze. It was the beginning of making interactive web applications. There were few major players that were eve

A long time ago (7-10 years ago) Web 2.0 was the craze. It was the beginning of making interactive web applications. There were few major players that were even backed by companies: Dojo, Prototype, GWT, (and like 4 more that I can't remember). These libraries were complicated and were generally component based with their own flair of inheritance. You could not iteratively enhance your existing web 1.0 app. You had to throw it out and start over again (the markup and all). Then along came jQuery and I remember distinctly saying to myself this is the library because I can progressively/iteratively add it to our existing crap (circa 2006-10). I still pat myself on the back on being right about that library being successful (I actually forced a previous employer to use jQuery over GWT and Dojo). Progressive enhancement is a great marketing point so maybe Vue.js will pull a jQuery :) Personally I want Elm to take off but it doesn't really reuse existing knowledge.