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> Maybe the 10% of companies that aren't deterred by this opinion simply don't have websites that necessitate a "web application," The further your features ge
by username90 7y ago
> Maybe the 10% of companies that aren't deterred by this opinion simply don't have websites that necessitate a "web application,"
The further your features get from a static html page the less JS frameworks helps. For example you can pretty easily write super mario in vanilla JS using normal html elements for rendering, doing that in JS frameworks would not be very fun at all. However if all you want to do is display data from servers or let the user fill in forms then JS frameworks are pretty good.
- yellowapple 7y agoIn turn, though, if your features are sufficiently close to being possible with a static HTML page, I fail to see the point of introducing a framework into that mix when you could just use static HTML (with maybe a sprinkling of JS when it's absolutely necessary, e.g. input validation more complex than what HTML offers).
- 7777fps 7y agoSuper mario is orders of magnitude simpler than most web applications. Almost the entire state is encoded in the current frame and there are only three instructions.
- username90 7y agoChange it to mario maker where you can create and upload levels and look at and play others levels directly in the browser and it is still easier to implement in vanilla JS than for example react. Honestly if these things are not enough to constitute a complex web app then I don't see how the demand for people able to write complex web apps can be that large, since almost nothing I use are complex in that case.