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It should be noted though that Rome is not a project by Facebook. It's by Sebastian McKenzie (@sebmck), who started working on it as a side project while working in Facebook. But he's working in Discord now. And the project is totally owned by him.
Where's Backbone, Ember, Coffeescript (the OG transpiled lang), HTML5, CSS3, WASM, ect, etc. The road to today is paved with many influential projects.
Firebug played a huge role in removing the shroud around javascript and making it approachable to a lot of people, helping them introspect others code, and improving their own code quality. After it, javascript became a beast you could tame rather than a source of endless frustration.
Should've been called "Some old school stuff I heard about and shiny projects with lots of Github stars." Sloppy click-bait work, this.
A low key ad for Rome imo. I thought the title was a metaphor for the JavaScript empire into its current state not the name of a new library. Nonetheless seems worth checking out
> Rome is designed to replace Babel, ESLint, Webpack, Prettier, Jest, and others. Sure, why not. Cool, lets see if it works out
For those that are disappointed at the omissions in the timeline: > Disclaimer > We could have mentioned a lot of other projects: > [lines omitted] > ...but we had to make choices to keep this timeline compact. > The 2 main constraints were: > We wanted 20 projects because we are in 2020 > We wanted at least one project for every year between 2010 and 2020. Reasoning kind of dumb, since this could have been a much mo…
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i attempted a timeline too: https://www.swyx.io/writing/js-third-age/ but youre right that people are unhappy with whatever you eventually leave out
Yeah. Im surprised that both of these left out Prototype.js which, to me, seems to be the father of these client-side libs
Where's Backbone, Ember, Coffeescript (the OG transpiled lang), HTML5, CSS3, WASM, ect, etc. The road to today is paved with many influential projects.
Only the first two are JavaScript projects (but do deserve a mention IMHO). The rest are more generally 'web platform' projects, but I think a thorough timeline covering the web platform more generally would be very neat/useful.