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> loads 50x-100x faster And takes less time to develop in the first place! These frameworks just seem like pure overhead to me.
by commandlinefan 7y ago
> loads 50x-100x faster
And takes less time to develop in the first place! These frameworks just seem like pure overhead to me.
- shard972 7y agoAs someone who uses React/Mithril and has just been hired to work mostly on jQuery, you obviously haven't had to build something more complicated than a wordpress blog.
- mmis1000 7y agoYou end up dupe your layout page everywhere and have a hard time update all of them if designer changed their mind. Or you could use some template system to do that… but if you need to use template, why not use react(or something like that) anyway?
- goatlover 7y agoBecause Rails, Symphony, Django, Phoenix or whatever does the job in the preferred language of the developer/team and often has more batteries or better tooling included.
- mmis1000 6y agoI bet those are not a Front end's preferred language and you end up need JavaScript anyway if you need some extra client form handling. Now you use two language to do one thing and made it more difficult to be maintained.
- grey-area 7y agoThat problem was solved approx 20 years ago. The alternatives are not react and templates vs writing html by hand.
- benibela 7y agoThe browsers had support for XSL templates You write your website in XML and the browser renders it using the template