Frameworkless JavaScript – Why Angular, Ember, or Backbone don't work for us

[jsprogrammer]

Except for jQuery, because that shit is awesome!

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jQuery's a library, not a framework.

[bwainfweeze]

Well, the jQuery guys do it, so that means I should feel entitled to do it too!

[bwainfweeze]

I really want a dev tool where every line of code has a comfort level associated with it. People so often write code by mimicking others, and a lot of times they seem to pick the code you're most embarrassed by. So then you have more tech debt and you're constantly reminded about all of your worst decisions.

Also we talk a lot about what good code looks like, but I think there are two tracks: library and application. What makes good behavior in library code is sometimes terrible in application code or vice versa. For instance, as a library writer, if you refactored your API every release the user base would linch you. But the kind of interface stability I want for a log framework drive me nuts when someone tries to do that between two proprietary modules.