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For the shops who don't live and breath js and whose js work is almost entirely browser-based, these monoliths are great. I, for one, am bummed that the js mar
by jgalt212 12y ago
For the shops who don't live and breath js and whose js work is almost entirely browser-based, these monoliths are great. I, for one, am bummed that the js market is moving away from monoliths. e.g. YUI shutting down.
- andrezsanchez 12y agoThat's an interesting perspective. I don't have any inherent problems with large libraries, but my problem with some of these 'monoliths' is that other libraries start to depend on the entire library when they only need a small piece of functionality that the library provides. Substack wrote an article [1] explaining some of the problems that monolithic libraries cause in an ecosystem. [1] http://substack.net/many_things http://substack.net/many_things
- jgalt212 12y agothanks, I'll check that out.