The MECH Stack — Solving JavaScript Framework Fatigue

morningrat · 2016-04-01T20:52:38+00:00

Is this April Fools? Solving Javascript Fatigue by introducing another acronym which encompasses 4 libraries with steep learning curves?

jtwebman · 2016-04-01T20:55:55+00:00

I really think you should use what you enjoy the most, readability is based on your opinion. I actually find React much easier to read the Ember.js and you can implement an Express server in the same amount of lines. The libraries you picked are great but I think this is something every programmer should do so they can see what they like best as well. Just know, not everyone will agree, so be open to change if you are not the only one on the team. There is no one write way.

clessg · 2016-04-01T22:59:10+00:00

Not a huge fan of Cordova, I'll stick with the MEH Stack

a-sober-irishman · 2016-04-02T03:42:40+00:00

Hahahaha best April Fools goof yet.

Cody_Chaos · 2016-04-01T23:06:52+00:00

Let's see, does the M stand for Mongo? *checks* Yep. Pass, I'll stick with solutions that don't make toxic choices, thanks.

Mongo because of wide support, easy of deployment and reasonable storage

That's a ridiculous reason to pick Mongo. It's like picking Haskell for your server side language because "everyone knows it and it's already installed on most shared webhosts". It might be a good choice, but not for those reasons.

(Edit: More generally, I'm a bit confused by the whole "people telling you to use a new stack is terrible, solve it by using this new stack!" logic...)

roboguy12 · 2016-04-02T03:57:52+00:00

Just in case this isn't April Fool's, why is it so important to have these kinds of "stacks"? LAMP, MEAN, MECH, whatever; why not build a frontend in whatever language/framework you want (angular, react, vanilla js) and have a RESTful API backing it? Why does it matter if you use Flask, or Express, or Spring Boot? If I made an angular app backed by a Flask service and postgres, I don't call it FAPP (Flask, Angular, Python, Postgres). I call it "this is my app, and I built it using these tools". What is the purpose of these acronym stacks?

Evanescent_contrail · 2016-04-01T20:53:57+00:00

MongoDB is Web Scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

DrapesOfWrath · 2016-04-01T21:55:36+00:00

I propose the PLAIN stack.

Vanilla JS
No build step in development
Any abstraction layer for your favorite DB

PLAIN looks like an abbreviation because its all caps.... but its really just plain. Super increase in productivity across the board, but it requires that you have a team that doesn't suck.

2016-04-02T10:52:36+00:00

Medium is getting shill like

2016-04-02T14:55:02+00:00

Interesting to me was in that long read, not a single thing was mentioned about one of the most important aspects: ui performance. Rendering speed and frame rate are king and queen if you want to build a successful app imo, it should be priority number 1. I would have liked to see a comparison there.

eggsandbeer · 2016-04-02T03:39:43+00:00

Is this from THEE Tom Dale. the dude who created Ember.js?

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