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Discussion on: How to select a front-end framework?

 
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Andrea Pavoni • Edited

My experience with this kind of stuff in enteprise is that you can use a framework anyway, but mostly as pluggable widgets. Instead of helpers, I’ve also used conponents (React or Vue), for common tasks (ex: search forms, autocomplete, etc...). It worked very well, or at least IMHO, I prefer this approach over jQuery plugins/helpers.

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Kasey Speakman • Edited

I would prefer frameworks over jQuery too. :) As I mentioned, there are nuances to doing frameworkless well. I definitely did not mean to imply a free-for-all. There should be guiding principles to the design, of which MVU is a good one. For interacting with the DOM for example, nothing wrong with using the React renderer library, rather than trying to manipulate the DOM directly.