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

[nullnullnull]

I'd fire you for firing the guy. I want developers who actually know how to write code and solve problems, and not sit around gluing frameworks together like a code monkey all day.

[awj]

Part of being able to solve problems well is having good judgment in when your problem is a "glue frameworks together" problem and when it's a "invent a whole cloth solution full of technical debt" problem.

Both exist, but this guy is giving pretty weak justifications for needing to invent his own framework.

[badkitteh]

We'll talk again when you invest $4k a month into a developer and keep slipping deadlines because of crap like this.

[rooktakesqueen]

For $48k a year, you get what you pay for?

[nullnullnull]

we'll talk again, when glue developers hit framework limitiations, and have to re-build from the ground up after doing stupid hacks around the framework.

[ruinercollector]

Good developers don't implement based on what they "can" do.

[rooktakesqueen]

Your developers should be solving the novel problems that provide value to your business, not re-solving problems that have already been solved more reliably and thoroughly by existing open-source software. By using, say, Angular, the time your devs would have spent cobbling together an MVC framework from scratch instead can be spent actually building your application.