Why Vanilla JavaScript

Post by austin-cheney » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

root_axis wrote: post #159

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If you hire me as a consultant I will do it for you at $150 per hour.

You said: > I just write my code and then point node at the main file, and this even includes front-end code for the browser. Then you said: > I never said Node is did anything for the front end. So which is it?

Post by austin-cheney » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 2:29 AM UTC

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Since you need just a little help… Yes, I push all my TS code through Node for type stripping. No, Node is not executing browser code. No, I am not suggesting Node is running in the browser. For extra extra extra clarity importing functions in JavaScript does not execute them. They still have to be called for them to execute. I am still willing to fix your code for a consultation fee.

yeah this is a bit confusing. so you strip the types from the frontend and serve the .ts file as .js file? That's a transpiler/bundler.

Post by jagged-chisel » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

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What does the binding look like in source code? Do we hand-code every UI field with the code that updates the local model and then transmits it to the backend? Or is there a way to make the boilerplate as small as possible, relying on one bit of code to handle synchronization between UI, local model, and server? “Using WebSockets” doesn’t bind an interface element to its source of truth; it’s just the chosen transpor…

You are so thinking about this only from a framework perspective, as if you have no imagination. You can answer all your questions yourself by simply writing the code without a framework. Its not that scary. It is as simple as I am suggesting, but only if you have actually done it yourself more than once. Whether or not your application is error prone is entirely on how you execute regardless of the tools in your too…

Post by austin-cheney » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 7:29 PM UTC

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You are so thinking about this only from a framework perspective, as if you have no imagination. You can answer all your questions yourself by simply writing the code without a framework. Its not that scary. It is as simple as I am suggesting, but only if you have actually done it yourself more than once. Whether or not your application is error prone is entirely on how you execute regardless of the tools in your too…

And you completely avoided answering the questions I asked. If you don’t know or understand, say so. Don’t act like an LLM that has to keep talking even when you don’t know.

Post by root_axis » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 4:37 PM UTC

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Confusing or not it works for me. No compile step and no build step. The application starts up in 0.2 seconds on Linux and about 1.2 seconds on Windows.

it is confusing the way you are explaining it, so much that even you can't understand. You do have a build step, you just think that doing that using node script is the same as not having one, I guess.