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Backend developer here. Everytime I need to create some sort of rich UI I discovered that the last framework I learnt was "no longer valid". Happened with JQuer
by olakease 10y ago
Backend developer here.
Everytime I need to create some sort of rich UI I discovered that the last framework I learnt was "no longer valid". Happened with JQuery, Knockout and now Angular 1.
My feeling is that frontend development is overcomplicated/overbloated. Specially with the big players (Angular, React). Lucky me, I found my way with riot.js. Simple, elegant, lightweight and fast enough. You don't need a lot of complicated boilerplate, nor learning a new template language or syntax.
- cloudjacker 10y agoI still make static websites with bootstrap and jquery and host them on Amazon S3 They look great, they perform well and I make money from that big buy button connected to stripe.
- kowdermeister 10y agoBut how can you look in the mirror in the morning and admit that your node_modules directory is less than 500Mb? Joke aside, if it works, it works. The simpler the better. JS is in a phase transition state currently that will get better over time, when we can finally write ES6/7 without compilation and use modules natively as well.
- cloudjacker 10y agoyeah, I put my node.js stripe processing on a heroku server for like $1. Not concerned about the node_modules size :)
- JepZ 10y ago+1 for riotjs.com
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- whostolemyhat 10y agoFrontend developer here. Everytime I need to create some sort of rich API I discovered that the last framework I learnt was "no longer valid". Happened with CakePHP, Webforms and now ASP.Net 2. My feeling is that backend development is overcomplicated/overbloated. Specially with the big players (AWS, Play). Lucky me, I found my way with PHP. Simple, elegant, lightweight and fast enough. You don't need a lot of complicated boilerplate, nor learning a new template language or syntax.