Congratulations, you've just built your own ad hoc JS Framework. We used to call that part of software development “design”, and learning basic design skills a

Congratulations, you've just built your own ad hoc JS Framework. We used to call that part of software development “design”, and learning basic design skills and becoming familiar with the common strategies and techniques were prerequisites for being a useful developer. Perhaps losing that baseline is an unfortunate side effect of having readily available black box code to do many common jobs in the Internet age and being able to get moderately good results just by joining up those boxes. I don’t think this is a good thing, though. The idea that learning to find your way around a design when you start working on a new project might be considered difficult and not just something everyone routinely does is not a happy one.