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Slimvoice - A Webapp Without JavaScript is a series where I document how I rebuilt my app, Slimvoice, using as little JavaScript as possible. Here's a recurrin
by stcredzero 8y ago
Slimvoice - A Webapp Without JavaScript is a series where I document how I rebuilt my app, Slimvoice, using as little JavaScript as possible.
Here's a recurring story in the programming field.
A new variation on technology is highly successful. The field starts using it enthusiastically, but doesn't keep track of the costs and cost/benefit. The new tech gets rather overused. Some people come out with optimizations. (Usually involving what amounts to caching.) Other insightful contrarian people take a minimalist approach. Rinse and repeat.
Once aware, one can spot this cycle happening. It is left as an exercise to the reader, how this can be used to profit.
- mercer 8y agoWhile I'm not a full-on no-js developer, my move to the back-end and less javascript has been one of the biggest reasons why I've started enjoying my job again. Unfortunately, at least judging by the many jobs I get offered, the market around me is still very much on the 'make everything a web app' train. I really hope the minimalist, or at least a less js-heavy approach actually becomes a new cycle, job-wise.
- stcredzero 8y agoFunny, but the Smalltalk Seaside webapp framework was once criticized as old fashioned for this kind of server-centric, javascript minimal approach. And that wasn't that long ago.