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Ask HN: Thought experiment: coding a VanillaJS front end

1 points by tboyd47 9y ago

Hey, I know there are a lot of long-time frontend devs on this forum. As for me, I've worked with Dojo, JQuery, Backbone, React, and most recently, Angular. A random thought struck me this morning: what would we do on a large project in 2017, if there were no frontend frameworks? For some reason I can't let this go. So I thought it would be fun to post the concept here and see if anyone wants to join in. Questions: * Would you transpile from another language, and if so, what? * How would you structure your code? * What capabilities / browsers would you support? * Would you request JSON or HTML from the server, or both? * Would you test your code and with what? * What build tools would you use? * How would you import and use external libraries and utilities? * How would you avoid namespace collisions? * Would you make your app an SPA? * What are the main challenges / problems you would face?

Artemix 9y ago
- No - If es6 is available, in modules that I'd import. - No explicit support of IE and Safari. If it works, it's nice, else, I don't care. - If it's a strictly-kept webapp, either GraphQL or JSON - For API: Postman, else I don't know. - GNU Make - Either npm or in-html links - Make namespaces following the folder architecture - As little as possible - Lightness, availability and, more importantly, security.