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Comment by eric4smith

Wow. The author is speaking about Javascript front-end frameworks.

I'm an old guy now, and I've rarely seen a need for a front-end framework. I know that sounds like heresy.

I've never bothered to learn Angular, React, NextJS, Svelte or any of the alphabet soup named frameworks. Normal javascript works fine these days for a sprinkling of front-end interactivity. jQuery is not even necessary anymore.

And with more recent technologies like Phoenix LiveView, there is very little need to use any of those front-end frameworks.

Count me as old-fashioned, but very few apps really need those kinds of frameworks. They could mostly do without them.

Frameworks are mostly necessary on the backend.

parent eric4smith 4 years ago

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