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I’ve been doing web development for more than 23 years. I’ve pretty much stuck to vanilla JS that entire time (though I did use jquery during the worse of the b

I’ve been doing web development for more than 23 years. I’ve pretty much stuck to vanilla JS that entire time (though I did use jquery during the worse of the browser incompatibility years). I keep meaning to learn some of the newer libraries but never get around to it since vanilla JS does everything I want it to do and I already know it. I wonder if I would be as surprised by what libraries like Vue can do as this person is about vanilla JS.

onion2k 6y ago
Not a Vue example but have a look at https://github.com/drcmda/reactanoid https://github.com/drcmda/reactanoid It's an Arkanoid clone (bat and ball game) written in React, with react-three-fibre for WebGL, zustand for state management, and use-cannon for physics. The full version is about 250 lines and there's also a simplified version that weighs in at 60 lines (not including the library code obviously). It runs at a solid 60FPS on a very basic laptop. Doing the same thing in vanilla JS, using the same libraries (or alternatives) would be a lot more work, and would end up with the exact same result. That's the point with a well written framework-driven app - when you use something like React or Vue you should be aiming to get the same end result as a vanilla JS app, but with much less effort. The cost to the user should really only be a slightly bigger download.