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Still don't understand why people prefer magic templated front-end frameworks. Reading non-standard HTML just sucks. What even is "$:" or why does Vue require non-standard javascript ref("") objects...
Still don't understand why people prefer magic templated front-end frameworks. Reading non-standard HTML just sucks. What even is "$:" or why does Vue require non-standard javascript ref("") objects...
But these must be maintained now
Very few sites need to be applications
In my case the big motivator was that with Vue, whenever I worked on my UI code I found I spent most of my time thinking about Vue and not about the UI. I think the key issue was that Vue seems to offer several different abstractions for each of the things it does, so there's generally lots of different ways you could architect any one thing - e.g. how to make a piece of state inside one component accessible from another. Then when I saw Vue3 was adding a new, apparently separate way of doing things (the composition API), but also not deprecating any current abstractions, that was what specifically made me start looking for alternatives.
In contrast I've found svelte less mature (and I've had to work around some bugs), but it's been infinitely easier to work with. Svelte basically just has One Magical Thing, and otherwise everything is plain JS (or at least looks like plain JS). So there's nothing to re-learn when I come back to the UI after not touching it for a month, and I don't really find myself thinking about any svelte-specific details when deciding how to architect each component or piece of state.
I'm only using a small subset of each library (e.g. I don't use routing or SSR), so YMMV. But so far I'm really happy I switched, and my UI code has gotten smaller and cleaner.
Solid JS is what I would have chosen. Not sure if they considered it. Best performance and dev experience with least 'magic' of all frameworks I've tried.
what do you like about the dev experience? i have a hard time seeing solid as something more than “react but faster and slightly less annoying”. still doesnt have scoped styles, animation, state mgmt, head management, etc out of the box, all minimum things i look for to be productive
Additionally...
{@html
Prism.highlight(code, Prism.languages[lang], lang)
}
I wish it had something like vuetify though.
Still don't understand why people prefer magic templated front-end frameworks. Reading non-standard HTML just sucks. What even is "$:" or why does Vue require non-standard javascript ref("") objects...
and JSX somehow gets your blessing? let he who is without sin…