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> Back in the day, every page of an online store was rendered server-side. One day, someone needed certain elements to call database views and rewrite the dom i

• noduerme 4y ago
  Totally ;) Between the first and second sentence. I'm still writing a lot of software in that paradigm. Basic AJAX, with nice typescript. JQuery (still super useful for having its own event loop). Underscore JS. Bit of PixiJS to replace the Flash I lost when I need something in canvas. Here's what I won't do: * Move any logic into HTML files * Use any nonstandard tags or inline any code to hook frameworks * Use any frameworks that modify the dom on the fly in any way I'm not 100% in control of. [edit] Here's what I do: Write all data types front/back in NodeJS now, or maintain a 1:1 datatype where PHP is involved that's a perfect mirror of the database table structure; strongly type everything coming in from DB calls before it hits the front end, including types that need to be dehydrated; make outbound objects rewritable to the DB and cached for writing until the time is right, depending on load; maintain high readability without forcing the backend to choke on every single long poler's data update. But hey, take 20 years worth of kids and put them through the same academies and job interviews, eventually they'll be great at answering questions about React and suck at writing useful code.