How true hackers write JavaScript

Post by owl57 » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 3:24 PM UTC

at-fates-hands wrote: post #227

MaxBarraclough wrote: post #210

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> As long as the code works, anything else is just gravy. Nonsense. Maintainability almost always matters. As the adage goes: code shouldn't merely work, it should clearly work. > If you were to peel back the layers on all the major websites out there, I'm sure you'd find less than stellar code everywhere. Indeed, but Sturgeon's Law shouldn't make us feel better.

> Nonsense. Maintainability almost always matters. The last three large corporations I worked for never cared about maintainability because the application or portal would only be in use for maybe a year or 18 months before a complete rewrite or total redesign. All of the recent projects I've been on take the same approach. Get it stood up, make it look pretty and release it. Because agile development makes business…

Post by schindlabua » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 3:37 PM UTC

acdha wrote: post #202

AltruisticGap wrote: post #198

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I like what this guy did, talking about native methods. However it's too flexible for me, I prefer to have the most minimal functionality in order to ensure consistency in my code. But maybe that's just me. If the library opens up too many possibilities, then I have both the "problem of choice" when writing code, and also it's more difficult to refactor down the line if you want to change lib. Whereas using your own…

I've been using this for years – it's not the end of web development but an awful lot of projects don't need more framework than can fit in a tweet: let $ = (selector, scope=document) => { return scope.querySelector(selector); }; let $$ = (selector, scope=document) => { return Array.from(scope.querySelectorAll(selector)); };

    const node = (tag = 'div', attributes = {}, inner) => {
        const e = document.createElement(tag);

        for(const [key, value] of Object.entries(atrributes))
            e.setAttribute(key, value);

        if(inner) e.innerHTML = inner;

        return e;
    };

    e.child = (a,b,c) => { const f = node(a,b,c); e.appendChild(f); return f; };

Post by JTbane » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 3:41 PM UTC

  function $(id) { return document.getElementById(id); }

Post by richiebonilla » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 3:51 PM UTC

too-soon-ago wrote: post #239

slantyyz wrote: post #223

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>> Modern web apps are less about being performant and minimal, and more about dealing with the complexities of large software teams If that's true, then the app will likely have what I call a "programmer's interface" (which is especially common in most enterprise web apps I encounter). Those apps might be solid from a code perspective, but don't tend to be very user friendly. I tend to think that modern web apps are…

The fancy-lookin' sites are the ones which hijack basic keyboard functionality, scroll in weird ways, etc. I can't be the only person who finds browser default behavior more intuitive and usable in general. Why does "UX" so often mean mouse-heavy and always favor the beginner over the power-user.