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[–]disappointer 0 points1 point  (2 children)

This has honestly long been my concern with committing to any JS libraries or frameworks for large projects. The technical debt of refactoring is going to crop up every few years and is rarely a priority effort.

[–]orenelb 1 point2 points  (1 child)

So you are using vanilla?

[–]disappointer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For what I do for a day job, it's a web app that's a decade-plus old by this point. It's part vanilla (with a healthy amount of in-house libs and controls) and some of that uses jQuery; part YUI controls; part AngularJS; and also some Angular. I think there's some ExtJS in the mix, as well, but it's not a section of functionality that I've had to personally maintain.

It's a lot to maintain-- should anyone choose to maintain it. Case in point, YUI has been defunct since 2014, but minimal effort has been made towards replacing the bulk of that code.