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Back in the day we did plenty of "real world professional projects" with jQuery. I don't see why you couldn't with Alpine. Yeah at some point you may need a m

by pier25 2y ago

Back in the day we did plenty of "real world professional projects" with jQuery. I don't see why you couldn't with Alpine. Yeah at some point you may need a more sophisticated solution but plenty of projects don't need React. This very forum you're using is just a very simple vanilla js file.

ramesh31 2y ago
>Back in the day we did plenty of "real world professional projects" with jQuery. And they were terribly unperformant, bug ridden, messes of spaghetti that I wouldn't wish on anyone in the year 2024. Things evolved past that for a reason.
- sgarland 2y ago
  Bold of you to assume that modern web dev isn’t also a terribly unperformant, bug-ridden mess of spaghetti.
  - pier25 2y ago
    Exactly. I've seen way more bloated React/Angular SPA apps than the typical PHP/jQuery Web 2.0 from back in the day.
fkyoureadthedoc 2y ago
> Back in the day we did plenty of "real world professional projects" with jQuery. I was there, it sucked