> except a year down the line the app is a complicated piece of spaghetti you have to rewrite Small correction from a software house perspective: except a yea

> except a year down the line the app is a complicated piece of spaghetti you have to rewrite Small correction from a software house perspective: except a year down the line the app is a complicated piece of spaghetti THE CLIENT has to rewrite OR PAY YOU TO REWRITE :D And with this: > most of the components you can reuse would work OK as pure HTML components anyway I unfortunately cannot agree. It is theoretically true from pure "it's possible" standpoint but it was not my experience in pre-jQuery times. The shit backend devs did with concatenating html + JS snippets as strings wrapped in various patterns like the builder to make it configurable was pure maintenance horror. I don't miss it at all.