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Lots of nice work put into this, but I think some of the fundamental architectural assumptions are a little regressive. For instance, it looks like the boilerpl
by languagehacker 12y ago
Lots of nice work put into this, but I think some of the fundamental architectural assumptions are a little regressive. For instance, it looks like the boilerplate expects a lot of server-side template rendering, or minimal dynamic rendering on the front-end. Also, using jQuery and event-oriented JS in general is nice and stable and easy to grok, but in my opinion not forward-looking.
I think the front-end world is going more in the direction of single-page apps that primarily use the server side for data-driven APIs. The server-side APIs become way more portable, and the user experience becomes far more responsive. Just because something is internal doesn't mean you don't want data portability, high responsiveness, and low latency.
I respect the fact that the approach is opinionated from a front-end perspective. But to counter an opinion with another opinion, data portability and reduced latency from the server justifies all the fuckery associated with many of the SPA frameworks (looking at Angular when I say fuckery). This framework encourages people to stick to the skills they were comfortable with five years ago, and untempered complacency is never a good thing.
- gfodor 12y agoOne man's "forward looking" is another man's "swept up in the latest trends." This framework seems to be pushing back against trends on the design front, so unsurprising it's pushing back on trends in the architecture front as well.