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If using babeljs for cross browser support is your starting point, then you likely started way later then the article author. Go back a few more years to 2005
by vbsteven 5y ago
If using babeljs for cross browser support is your starting point, then you likely started way later then the article author.
Go back a few more years to 2005 or even earlier. If you wanted a website you installed Apache on a server (or used a shared hosting package), FTP your files to it and you're done. That's it. No pipelines, no builds, no package managers. Just files in a folder, that you copy to the server.
If you wanted to do cross browser JS you downloaded the latest version of jquery.min.js, FTP it to the server and reference it in a script tag.
I wrote my first websites in notepad.exe and used something like FileZilla to upload.
That is what I call simple web development.
I agree with the author that now things are just way more complex than they should be.
edit: looks like jQuery was first released in 2006, which is 4 years after Firefox was released, and 2 years before Chrome. So take my `2005` line as rough estimate.
- 5cott0 5y agoI don't think you're smart enough to make any inference about when I started. But if you insist on this crusty bonafides peen measuring contest I got started serving php via cgi on apache deployed with scp.
- vbsteven 5y agoI’m not insisting on anything, sorry if I might have offended you, that was definitely not the intent. I assumed that you might have started later than the author because you compared the current state to just a few years ago, while the article mainly talks about even further back in history. The tools I mentioned were not meant for bragging. I just wanted to indicate that back then it was all way simpler, which you know as you apparently started in a similar timeframe to myself. The main point I wanted to make was that back then things were so much simpler.
- 5cott0 5y agoI know I was being sarcastic because hn discussions around the history of JS always devolve into this silly flamebait and no one should take them seriously.