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You have to download thousands of packages, keep track of various dependencies and their security holes, adding an overhead for auditing them.
HTML5 with jQuery IMHO still beats everything in simplicity and getting work done fastly
Cool interface for user flow diagrams: https://overflow.io/s/9ST7SX/
I think the weirdest way is using React. I mean, it feels so unnatural for me, compared to the jQuery way. You have to download thousands of packages, keep track of various dependencies and their security holes, adding an overhead for auditing them. HTML5 with jQuery IMHO still beats everything in simplicity and getting work done fastly
This isn't a weird UI as such, but it's probably a technology that isn't explored enough. Back in the very early 2000s before Javascript was universally available, we wrote a CGI-based technology that worked by persisting the entire state of the page between clicks. It was a true widget-based server-side GUI, so you could build single page UIs by composing widgets such as buttons, labels, and more complex things, hie…
I've heard that some people build UIs with thousands of dependencies, in JavaScript that hits the server for text that is then parsed to object that are then passed through all sorts of classes that each spit out HTML. They also do some weird stuff with events like key-ups in order to re-render input fields based on objects rather than letting the browser manage those kinds of things. Sounds pretty weird to me.
It has a unique capability: it loads quickly.
I've heard that some people build UIs with thousands of dependencies, in JavaScript that hits the server for text that is then parsed to object that are then passed through all sorts of classes that each spit out HTML. They also do some weird stuff with events like key-ups in order to re-render input fields based on objects rather than letting the browser manage those kinds of things. Sounds pretty weird to me.
Yes! Web development is "weird" because we (developers) are basically constantly trying to put square pegs into round holes. Over the past ~25 years, a document delivery system has been perverted into a application delivery system. The underlying, fundamental technologies were not intended for "UI" app development.
This website uses scatterplots instead of lists to display products: https://www.productchart.com So on Product Chart, you can for example say "Show me 300 smartphones and put the price on the x-axis and the size on the y-axis". It's a bit like you would lay out things on a table and then organize them by some criteria.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7465980
Also similar, and by another HN user: