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It ebbs and flows. There was a time not so long ago where it seemed like every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework. I'd much rather
by na85 5y ago
It ebbs and flows. There was a time not so long ago where it seemed like every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework.
I'd much rather read about a startup's postmortem than about some monads-as-a-service library releasing version 14.374.299
- mohanmcgeek 5y ago> There was a time not so long ago where it seemed like every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework. I know it feels this way but it was in fact a very long time ago. That was 2011-2012ish IIRC
- hobofan 5y agoIt did definitely drag on for far longer than that. 2009-2012 was the time of post-jQuery, with a lot of discourse around better alternatives to that (e.g. underscore.js, backbone.js). React was released in 2013, which sparked a lot of offshoots. Vue came in 2014, and Angular in 2016, which I would say is the earliest point where you could see a significant drop in the activity.
- mohanmcgeek 5y agoIIRC the front-end JavaScript frameworks had considerably less coverage than node.js projects. 2011-2014 was the time everything that could be written in js was written in js. Didn't matter if it was a good idea, I just loved the energy here!
- na85 5y agoMaybe. I lurked for a long while before creating my account in 2012 so that sounds about right.
- heywintermute 5y ago>every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework. Felt like that with articles about Rust as well