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> I recently built an app prototype in a couple days using nothing but vanilla JS and the DOM. I was literally two days in before I installed a single non-dev d
by vmorgulis 10y ago
> I recently built an app prototype in a couple days using nothing but vanilla JS and the DOM. I was literally two days in before I installed a single non-dev dependency. Guess what? It was fine.
IMHO a good strategy to reduce the cognitive load (and limit dependencies).
- nkkar 10y agoI loved this admission. There is a lot of awesome, powerful, fancy stuff out there today, but you can get a lot done with the vanilla approach. I was introduced to JS back when AJAX was 'blowing up', and today still prefer to hack quick ideas w/ at most a jQuery import