Ask HN: JavaScript framework that I can use “right now”?

Post by jblake » Sun, Aug 23, 2015, 4:18 PM UTC

sbank wrote: post #18

jblake wrote: post #12

jQuery. I'm the sole developer on a "rails monolith" (254 tables, 540 models/classes, 4 years old), with enterprise-like architecture (ecommerce, event ticket sales, booking engine, access control, etc) and I'm positive the only way I'm able handle it all is because I stick to basic jquery. My secrets: - The rails-ujs adapter - $(document).on('event', '.element', ..) is fantastic. Never debug events ever again - sele…

Thank you for this comment. Several things there that I will look into! If you don't mind, could you elaborate a bit on the following: > - $(document).on('event', '.element', ..) is fantastic. Never debug events ever again > - a single javascript function that accepts a DOM element (body, a modal, section) and initializes all the elements the app knows of (selectize elements, date/time pickers, etc) inside that conta…

  $(document).on 'ajax:success', '.guest-form', ->
    notify 'success', 'Guest updated.'
    $(@).parents('.modal').modal 'hide'


  $(document).ajaxError (event, jqxhr, settings, thrownError) ->
  handle_ajax_error(event, jqxhr)


  @handle_ajax_error = (error, xhr) ->
  if xhr.status is 422
    error = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText)['errors']
    notify 'error', error
  else if xhr.status is 500
    notify 'error', 'Error communicating with the server. We have been notified.'
  if xhr.status is 401
    notify 'warning', 'Session has expired. Redirecting to login...'
    window.location = '/login'
  if xhr.status is 403
    window.location = '/access-denied'

  $(document).on 'shown.bs.modal', 'a[data-toggle="tab"]', (e) ->

    $modal_body = $( $(e.target).attr('href') )
    general_init $modal_body

  general_init = ($container) ->
    add_selectize $container.find('input.membership-plan-select'), $.extend(true, {}, Selects.MembershipPlanOptions)

Post by rubiquity » Mon, Aug 24, 2015, 12:35 AM UTC

swanson wrote: post #9

I'd use Backbone. It's old (relative to other JS stuff) but stable. It's one thing to learn and has all the pieces (model, views, events, router). Plenty of resources online or in paper form. If you want, try applying some of the ideas of the "modern" tools to Backbone: make a backbone view that has two models - one for data (aka React props) and one for view state (aka React state). Bind both model "change" events t…