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So it would be impossible to write google sheets in pure html/javascript (except for the server bits that is)?

• adventured 7y ago
  The matter is that it wouldn't make sense to do it. It's certainly possible. If you try building a large scale application (not merely a website or simple CRUD-style service), something as complex and demanding as a Google Sheets in pure html/javascript, you're going to reinvent a lot of wheels in the process and waste an enormous amount of time, for reasons (hopeful performance gains, and minimizing external requirements) that will not be strong enough to justify the time cost. More likely in the process of reinventing wheels, you'll lose a lot of your hoped for performance and simplification gains, as you create your own monsters and bloat.
  • BlueTemplar 7y ago
    Well, the issue these days is that JavaScript is becoming a serious security problem. Hopefully more and more people will just start blocking JavaScript outright, and this will just have been a misguided attempt to try and turn the web browser into a full blown virtual machine...
• herbstein 7y ago
  It's not impossible. That's obvious since the frameworks ultimately compile down to plain HTML/CSS/JS. The consideration is around how workable the codebase becomes/is.
  • Eric_WVGG 7y ago
    Seconded. I mean, computers made of rubber bands and tinker toys that play tic tac toe exist, but I wouldn’t make a chess playing computer that way. After a few years of mostly doing React apps, I’m considering vanilla js for a new thing. It’ll be best for performance purposes, but man, I’m gonna miss components.