Interesting article, thank you, coming from a novice JS developer.
Primarily I am a PHP developer. I prefer MPAs over SPAs. Using the right tool for the right job is important.
Personally, I don't enjoy JavaScript that much. That's just me. However I will use JS if I'm building a real-time application, or high-load HTTPS RESTful APIs. Many times JS is the perfect route to solving a problem, for me at least.
There are many places where JS excels. And places where it fails. For one, I think NPM and the libraries are a mess! So many packages. So many libraries. Some simple frameworks require 800+ packages! There are also security issues involved including SO MANY packages.
But ya know what? In the end, some of those frameworks make it beautifully easy to deploy applications, which is great. <3 (Looking at you Vue and Next.js)
Lots of upsides and downsides. Weight them out. Decide what's best for you.
I hold very strong to this opinion, that we should not be trashing tools. Programming languages are tools.
The JS ecosystem is awesome, wonderful, but bad too. Nothing is perfect. And perfection is subjective to each individual.
Interesting article, thank you, coming from a novice JS developer.
Primarily I am a PHP developer. I prefer MPAs over SPAs. Using the right tool for the right job is important.
Personally, I don't enjoy JavaScript that much. That's just me. However I will use JS if I'm building a real-time application, or high-load HTTPS RESTful APIs. Many times JS is the perfect route to solving a problem, for me at least.
There are many places where JS excels. And places where it fails. For one, I think NPM and the libraries are a mess! So many packages. So many libraries. Some simple frameworks require 800+ packages! There are also security issues involved including SO MANY packages.
But ya know what? In the end, some of those frameworks make it beautifully easy to deploy applications, which is great. <3 (Looking at you Vue and Next.js)
Lots of upsides and downsides. Weight them out. Decide what's best for you.
I hold very strong to this opinion, that we should not be trashing tools. Programming languages are tools.
The JS ecosystem is awesome, wonderful, but bad too. Nothing is perfect. And perfection is subjective to each individual.
Thanks for that beautiful review. I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said.
Yes, absolutely and that's why I state it's awesome ... not perfect.