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Skit: A pure JavaScript front end for building better web clients

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Re: Skit: A pure JavaScript front end for building better web clients

#2

    > > You seriously made another module loader?
    
    > Yeah. There are several reasons why:
    > To create a new-feeling environment that is clearly not node,
    > because you’re writing code that runs in node and IE9 and Chrome
    > etc. It shouldn’t feel like any old node.js module.
Why shouldn't it feel like any old node.js module? Nearly all the work in JS packaging of late has been to abstract the differences so that we can use the well-established node packaging system on both ends. We're already able to do it with stuff like babel and browserify.

Re: Skit: A pure JavaScript front end for building better web clients

#5
post #3

given that your handle is nej, i'm assuming you know that skit means literally "shit" in swedish. men jag tycker den har är en faktiskt bra ide.

It's mentioned at the bottom of the page and in a Github issue[0]

0: https://github.com/clusterinc/skit/issues/4

Re: Skit: A pure JavaScript front end for building better web clients

#7
Thank you for actually serving up a proper web page (initial server-side rendering)!

Using javascript to enhance the page to provide faster loading or other features is great, but it is important to have at least something on the page when javascript is not available.

Re: Skit: A pure JavaScript front end for building better web clients

#10
Two years ago I would've been excited but now I've developed a filter for anything with javascript and front end or framework in the same sentence if they are not backed by a major corporation, simply based on the reason that there have been so much abandonware in this landscape, I think even for Google it's been tough sell. I think that React is the way to do it but slow to adopt it especially because I'm so comfortable with jQuery and never had the need to invent new ways of doing things.
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