Seems like the frontend developers who are told to never use onclick= handlers have never used a more advanced UI framework before, like Apple's Interface Build

Seems like the frontend developers who are told to never use onclick= handlers have never used a more advanced UI framework before, like Apple's Interface Builder for example. In more advanced js frameworks like Ember.js, all the click handlers are essentially onclick= style. "this is the right way of doing things" I feel like many of your team's complaints are due to the fact that they are old school web developers who have probably never wrote apps on the desktop before, where 2-way bindings are standard. The jQuery style of event binding is extremely brittle because it requires the DOM to have a specific structure.