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You might not need JavaScript

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Re: You might not need JavaScript

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Post by jlg23 »

sn0v wrote: post #211
nkassis wrote: post #172

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I've had interview candidates for frontend developer positions who only know how to build web pages using frameworks like Angular and React. They don't seem to understand how those frameworks work but essentially patch together a bunch of example online to get something going. It's truly unfortunate that many beginner web development tutorial introduce these technologies first in my view. Without giving new developer…

How would you suggest breaking out of that silo?

Stay curious. If you know only one framework, read its source and understand every bit of it (or which parts you can ignore and why).

Re: You might not need JavaScript

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Post by svennv »

nfriedly wrote: post #143

When I was hired on the Watson team, the first thing they asked me to do was help improve performance of their AngularJS-based website. It was all-around slow, especially for the initial page view. I stripped out AngularJS and most of the other JavaScript, and published a website that was almost pure static HTML. It loaded very quickly. My manager thought it was hilarious - his "JavaScript expert" came in and deleted…

Of course: The important thing about a tool is not just to know how to use it, but also when and when not to.

Nice example.

Re: You might not need JavaScript

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Post by Can_Not »

sorry wrote: post #233
__s wrote: post #216

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My framework looks like this: https://github.com/serprex/openEtG/blob/master/dom.js The code that uses it looks like this: https://github.com/serprex/openEtG/blob/master/views/MainMen... The site looks like this: http://etg.dek.im I recently worked on a site at my job where I was able to implement it with JS + C#/OWIN, all static html, only uses toastr/jquery. Was nice they let me break away from the illusion that th…

Seeing that code I would not hire you.

Any specific reason? Not trying to be accusatory, but your comment appears not genuine and I don't see anything instantly unhirable about his code after a short peruse.
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