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Can you expand on significant amount of front-end functionality ?

• emodendroket 8y ago
  Writing jQuery to accomplish a feature like hiding one element if another is checked is significantly more code and more error-prone (not to mention difficult to test) than doing the equivalent thing with a tool like Angular is.
  • GordonS 8y ago
    It's 1 line with jQuery, so I guess "significantly more" is relative?
    • emodendroket 8y ago
      Alright, fair, you could just assign a toggle on click, but if the interaction is any more complex than that (check some other form value, see if multiple different boxes are checked, etc.) it's not.
    • _Tev 8y ago
      Every spaghetti ball starts with these one liners. Using just one line implies no structure or separation of concerns (needed for anything complex), which is why nobody is talking about this case, and immediately jumping to theoretical "SPA-like functionality, but implemented in jQuery". EDIT: as for your original question ("significant amount of FE functionality"), from my experience jQuery loses a lot of its appeal when you have over 1k lines of JS, and I guess over 5k JS frameworks (React, Ng, Ember, Vue) start to be significantly better. When over 10k jQuery would be crazy mess (I have seen one such project, it was fun trainwreck).