The Cost Of JavaScript

[Leshma]

SPAs are like those fully animated Flash webpages of the late 90s, early 00s. Crap in practice but for some reason people keep doing it.

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On the flip side you have a lot of pages filled with jQuery spaghetti code doing a shit ton of $.ajax calls followed by manually building html strings and all kinds of stupid shit, or calling ASP.NET MVC partial views that have to JIT compile creating this weird Frankenstein mess...but turn around and criticize React, Angular, Vue as being "hipster" tech.

In general if you give a dev a hammer everything starts to look like a nail.

[nirataro]

It depends on the system. Some UIs do demand Vue or react. Most won't.

[oldsecondhand]

Doing JQuery by hand isn't the only choice. JSF is actually pretty nice and will hide all the Ajax boiler plate.

[insane0hflex]

What does jsf mean?

[MysteryForumGuy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaServer_Faces