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> 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 w
by 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.