I learned “pure” JS back in 2013, when HTML5 was brand new, and I still don’t get most of the stuff going on nowadays.

  • delirium@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    All these things are solving different problems and you absolutely don’t have to use them if they complicate your current workflow.

    I can’t imagine making a high interval trading app, things like notion or figma without modern libraries.

    jQuery only gets you so far before you will wake up in unmaintainable hell where your team has to re-invent the wheel

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      1 year ago

      You don’t need any of that, not even jquery, to display static content, or even to make a decent commerce page (shopping, booking, tickets). I would wager the vast majority of the internet does not need to work like Figma or Notion (or old timey chatrooms, for that matter), with real time changes being sent to all connected sessions.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, that is true. But actually it’s more than that: you don’t need a dev to display static content or a decent commerce page anymore. Square space and it’s competitors give more options at a better value to the layman than devs using PHP or jQuery could hope to these days. We have the simple websites, so frameworks very specifically target productivity and maintainability for complex web apps.