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A nice thought, but front-end tools are not really mature enough to be boring, sorry. I mean one could credibly say "oh I'm so boring, I use jQuery everywhere"
by serve_yay 11y ago
A nice thought, but front-end tools are not really mature enough to be boring, sorry. I mean one could credibly say "oh I'm so boring, I use jQuery everywhere" but... that's not actually going to be a boring development experience. It will be exciting, in the bad way.
- hiphipjorge 11y agoThe problem with jQuery is not so much jQuery itself, it's the architecture of sites/apps written with many jQuery plugins and no code organization. I wrote many apps using simple JS modules (with browserify) using jQuery for DOM manipulation and the approach worked great. While I don't really use jQuery anymore, it's great for what it aims to do: DOM manipulation. The point is that exciting development experiences (in the bad way) are usually due to developers not really not knowing what they're doing. Picking your tools is part of that and no tool will, inherently, provide a bad development experience.
- serve_yay 11y ago> The problem with jQuery is not so much jQuery itself, it's the architecture of sites/apps written with many jQuery plugins and no code organization. Yes, precisely. But you could conceivably call such a ball of mud "boring" because there's nothing cutting edge about it.
- rawTruthHurts 11y agoI couldn't help but read the article as "hype beats reliability, and that's the ways it should be"