Poll: Which JavaScript framework do you use (and why)? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Which JavaScript framework do you use (and why)?

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Post by felipesabino » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:45 PM UTC

marti221 wrote: post #17

simonw wrote: post #11

Do you know jQuery inside out? If not, you should learn that before you worry about higher level frameworks.

This should be, "Do you know JavaScript inside out?". Native JS is where people should be starting.

Exactly...

As crockford would say "The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language Has Become the World's Most Popular Programming Language" http://javascript.crockford.com/popular.html

Re: Poll: Which JavaScript framework do you use (and why)?

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Post by kapitalx » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:45 PM UTC

nahname wrote: post #14

Just beware what you are getting into with Angular. https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/ng/com... https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/test/ng/co... https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/ng/roo... https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/test/ng/ro...

Can you elaborate?

Re: Poll: Which JavaScript framework do you use (and why)?

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Post by at-fates-hands » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:46 PM UTC

Started with Backbone and found myself using a lot of extensions to get the work done. Switched over to Angular and it seemed like a much more complete framework. Nail in the coffin for Backbone was when a buddy rewrote one of his extensions from Backbone (almost 2000 lines) for Angular (just shy of 800 lines).

I haven't built anything huge with it, but am enjoying how easy it is to work with. I use .Net and MVC quite a bit, so I think the Angular with its "pseudo" (some people argue Angular isn't a "real" MVC framework) MVC approach was easy to pick up. I also like the idea you can use a little for say a navigation or a photo album or a lot for a large scale native application.

Never liked Knockout for a variety of reasons, did some cool stuff with Meteor, but convincing people to use it was a hassle.

In the end, AngularJS wins for me.

Re: Poll: Which JavaScript framework do you use (and why)?

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Post by hayksaakian » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:47 PM UTC

Should specify you mean frontend

I'm using sails.js (on top of express.js and node.js) for an MVC app

Re: Poll: Which JavaScript framework do you use (and why)?

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Post by mbesto » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:48 PM UTC

yesimahuman wrote: post #7

I'm going all in on Angular, even building a big open source project around it ( http://ionicframework.com/ ). What really drew me in was hearing from developers that were using it at big, slow companies for entire teams building production apps. Officially adopting a technology like that is pretty rare, and I guessed Angular had started to achieve a level of adoption that would make it the most worthwhile to invest…

We're an Angular shop and just started using Ionic for our mobile app. Loving it so far! Thanks!

Re: Poll: Which JavaScript framework do you use (and why)?

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Post by m1117 » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:48 PM UTC

ReactiveJS

Re: Poll: Which JavaScript framework do you use (and why)?

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Post by nahname » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:48 PM UTC

kapitalx wrote: post #22

nahname wrote: post #14

Just beware what you are getting into with Angular. https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/ng/com... https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/test/ng/co... https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/ng/roo... https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/test/ng/ro...

Can you elaborate?

Besides just four files containing ~10k lines of code?

Re: Poll: Which JavaScript framework do you use (and why)?

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Post by waterfowl » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:50 PM UTC

Meteor is amazing and having been given the opportunity to build out a shop I am going all in with it. I've previously used backbone for large scale(HUGE contracts) projects, and I appreciate it a lot, but meteor makes things ez-mode for me. Basically abolishes front/backend dichotomy(apart from design type stuff, which I'm still abysmal at, but that's why we have designers who can layout in CSS)

Re: Poll: Which JavaScript framework do you use (and why)?

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Post by nahname » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:50 PM UTC

chm wrote: post #20

nahname wrote: post #14

Just beware what you are getting into with Angular. https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/ng/com... https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/test/ng/co... https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/ng/roo... https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/test/ng/ro...

I'm not quite sure what's your point. Of course the magic has to happen somwehere. I just don't want to bother with it. AngularJS is not so easy to understand, but it works pretty well, for me at least.

The point is that the code is quickly piling up technical debt.

Re: Poll: Which JavaScript framework do you use (and why)?

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Post by WalterSear » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:52 PM UTC

yesimahuman wrote: post #7

I'm going all in on Angular, even building a big open source project around it ( http://ionicframework.com/ ). What really drew me in was hearing from developers that were using it at big, slow companies for entire teams building production apps. Officially adopting a technology like that is pretty rare, and I guessed Angular had started to achieve a level of adoption that would make it the most worthwhile to invest…

I think it may also be useful to pass this post around too, for people who are browsing this thread. Took me some clicking around to find the right level of explanation (for me) of what ionic does.

http://ionicframework.com/blog/where-does-the-ionic-framewor...