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Creating a front end. I actually really enjoying laying out a beautiful design in HTML, but... I hate hate hate hate hate working in JS. Just throwing up a MPA

by fjp 7y ago

Creating a front end. I actually really enjoying laying out a beautiful design in HTML, but... I hate hate hate hate hate working in JS. Just throwing up a MPA with a templating engine is not enough functionality for what I want to offer. No matter how many times I try to start using React, Angular, Vue, or just do it with vanilla and maybe jQuery, I just don't get it In my ideal world I would have a front end engineer friend who wanted to work on all the same things I did and I could just serve up APIs all day.

jordanroher 7y ago
That’s funny, I’m the opposite. I love front-end work. I adore JavaScript when I can write it using TypeScript. I program in React for my job all day and go home and make more React websites for fun. I do appreciate the more backend-y developers who send data to power the front-ends I build.
karmakaze 7y ago
I also used to hate making front-ends, from jQuery onwards. This changed when I started using Vue. The components are so lightweight, I'll make ones to do simple output formatting. And with TypeScript it's so nice, almost like back-end code. Oh when using Vue, I avoid the whole redux/vuex whatever and either use local state, vue-stash, or similar simple machinery.