Modern day Javascript Development
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One day I entered the world of modern day javascript development and oh my god, what I saw is a perfect plot to drive any sane developer to become a mental zombie on the edge of killing himself and reborn and be killed again by weapon of mass destruction created by these modern day javascript frameworks. It made me first laugh and then cry and then cry some more. All the way I was asking myself why. As a developer how can you put up with something like this. I know there are lot of smart people making lot of smart tools but this is just insane. My journey began as I was trying to learn angular but before that I had to understand all those javascript jargon (which is acceptable to learn any language ) but there are bundlers, task runners, ployfills , hot module loading, linting, module loaders, minification, uglify etc. etc. Then there is grunt,gulp,systemjs,webpack, npm ,node, es6, typescript. Gone are the days when you just put a script tag in your html to your javascript and Jquery files and you are good to go. Number one issue with most of the javascript frameworks are lack of tooling support and framework itself rely on unfinished modules or modules that are still in beta and yet framework claims that it is production ready. Also it feels like, to do a simple thing you have to install this or that module. I guess everyone is relying on someone else to provide that bit of function you can write in few lines of code but no you have to install this or that using npm. Angular's quick start install few hundred modules ( WTF !) . What good is a framework if it needs to rely on so many other modules ? You look at some of the configurations you need to create to make everything work with each other is just ridiculous. Every project on the Internet has different setup using pinch of this and pinch of that. It feels like you are at an international food festival where they use same basic ingredients but what they cook is up to them and everyone has their own flavor. A lot of people are praising these frameworks which makes me wonder either I am too dumb to understand all these or they are afraid that if they say this is insane they will be cast out of community or wake up from their beautiful dream. I have not given up yet but please tell me I am not going insane !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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One day I entered the world of modern day javascript development and oh my god, what I saw is a perfect plot to drive any sane developer to become a mental zombie on the edge of killing himself and reborn and be killed again by weapon of mass destruction created by these modern day javascript frameworks. It made me first laugh and then cry and then cry some more. All the way I was asking myself why. As a developer how can you put up with something like this. I know there are lot of smart people making lot of smart tools but this is just insane. My journey began as I was trying to learn angular but before that I had to understand all those javascript jargon (which is acceptable to learn any language ) but there are bundlers, task runners, ployfills , hot module loading, linting, module loaders, minification, uglify etc. etc. Then there is grunt,gulp,systemjs,webpack, npm ,node, es6, typescript. Gone are the days when you just put a script tag in your html to your javascript and Jquery files and you are good to go. Number one issue with most of the javascript frameworks are lack of tooling support and framework itself rely on unfinished modules or modules that are still in beta and yet framework claims that it is production ready. Also it feels like, to do a simple thing you have to install this or that module. I guess everyone is relying on someone else to provide that bit of function you can write in few lines of code but no you have to install this or that using npm. Angular's quick start install few hundred modules ( WTF !) . What good is a framework if it needs to rely on so many other modules ? You look at some of the configurations you need to create to make everything work with each other is just ridiculous. Every project on the Internet has different setup using pinch of this and pinch of that. It feels like you are at an international food festival where they use same basic ingredients but what they cook is up to them and everyone has their own flavor. A lot of people are praising these frameworks which makes me wonder either I am too dumb to understand all these or they are afraid that if they say this is insane they will be cast out of community or wake up from their beautiful dream. I have not given up yet but please tell me I am not going insane !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
It's all quite easy, really. You simply start by installing the thing so you can calibrate the other thing. After that it's simply a matter of starting the whatchamacallit so you can use the doohickey. Of course you should think about updating the parameters so you can jingle the mumble. You may need the yackity depending on your smackity. Now start up the bibbity giving it a babbity and you will find it just works. Any questions? :D
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One day I entered the world of modern day javascript development and oh my god, what I saw is a perfect plot to drive any sane developer to become a mental zombie on the edge of killing himself and reborn and be killed again by weapon of mass destruction created by these modern day javascript frameworks. It made me first laugh and then cry and then cry some more. All the way I was asking myself why. As a developer how can you put up with something like this. I know there are lot of smart people making lot of smart tools but this is just insane. My journey began as I was trying to learn angular but before that I had to understand all those javascript jargon (which is acceptable to learn any language ) but there are bundlers, task runners, ployfills , hot module loading, linting, module loaders, minification, uglify etc. etc. Then there is grunt,gulp,systemjs,webpack, npm ,node, es6, typescript. Gone are the days when you just put a script tag in your html to your javascript and Jquery files and you are good to go. Number one issue with most of the javascript frameworks are lack of tooling support and framework itself rely on unfinished modules or modules that are still in beta and yet framework claims that it is production ready. Also it feels like, to do a simple thing you have to install this or that module. I guess everyone is relying on someone else to provide that bit of function you can write in few lines of code but no you have to install this or that using npm. Angular's quick start install few hundred modules ( WTF !) . What good is a framework if it needs to rely on so many other modules ? You look at some of the configurations you need to create to make everything work with each other is just ridiculous. Every project on the Internet has different setup using pinch of this and pinch of that. It feels like you are at an international food festival where they use same basic ingredients but what they cook is up to them and everyone has their own flavor. A lot of people are praising these frameworks which makes me wonder either I am too dumb to understand all these or they are afraid that if they say this is insane they will be cast out of community or wake up from their beautiful dream. I have not given up yet but please tell me I am not going insane !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
You did not mention ECMAScript 6 so far. That's where the trouble starts finally. There are lots and lots of syntactic sugar where my favorite online book says: This is equivalent to... You don't have to use this yourself but if you read someone elses code and you meet things like ...myObject or ´${ROOT_URL}/foo' there is no workaround. You have to once again to look up this strange phrase.
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These feelings of being overwhelmed by the plethora of JS libraries are normal and will pass. :) They pass because you will learn to ignore a lot of the noise. I think the main thing to keep in mind is :
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Developers need to make conscious decisions about the frameworks they depend on
With JS frameworks, we often find that someone has just piled on another library. Also, many newbie devs learn some JS think it is enough and then want JS everywhere (ala Node). That is the old, "If all I got is a hammer..." mentality. JS Waxy Build-up Some of the JS waxy build-up does actually make sense. Keep in mind we need a library for : UI (controls etc) : Bootstrap DOM Manipulation : jQuery Code Organization / MVC / Classic OOP : Angular, Backbone, etc. Anti-Desktop Days You just don't see those libraries (as much) if you're a Windows dev because they are automatically added for you. Really take a look at the designer code to your winforms some time. Or take a close look at what you get from user32.dll sometime. You get a lot of stuff in there that is built-in. MVC Framework :Separation of Concerns The reason we choose another JS framework is to get some separation of concerns like we get in AngularJS. This is a way of organizing your code. However, you can get that from ASP.NET MVC and when you choose ASP.NET MVC you will get all the other things (bootstrap, jQuery, etc) also. Plus you get the Razor view engine which renders your code to nice HTML on the user end. And that's my final question which I think ifyou really think about it, it may drive you toward an answer. Why not just simply choose ASP.NET MVC dev via Visual Studio Community 2015? I mean you get pretty much everything you need from client side to server side and the server code is the nice C# that you have come to love (I know I have). Yes, it does mean you have to understand Bootstrap, a bit of javascript (jquery) and C# and HTML but you can learn them relatively easily and do just about everything you want. I just don't know why the matter hasn't been settled and ASP.NET MVC hasn't been considered the big winner. And I've done quite a bit of Angular and various other JS. Take a look at my articles where I do some pure JS. Great discussion.:thumbsup:
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One day I entered the world of modern day javascript development and oh my god, what I saw is a perfect plot to drive any sane developer to become a mental zombie on the edge of killing himself and reborn and be killed again by weapon of mass destruction created by these modern day javascript frameworks. It made me first laugh and then cry and then cry some more. All the way I was asking myself why. As a developer how can you put up with something like this. I know there are lot of smart people making lot of smart tools but this is just insane. My journey began as I was trying to learn angular but before that I had to understand all those javascript jargon (which is acceptable to learn any language ) but there are bundlers, task runners, ployfills , hot module loading, linting, module loaders, minification, uglify etc. etc. Then there is grunt,gulp,systemjs,webpack, npm ,node, es6, typescript. Gone are the days when you just put a script tag in your html to your javascript and Jquery files and you are good to go. Number one issue with most of the javascript frameworks are lack of tooling support and framework itself rely on unfinished modules or modules that are still in beta and yet framework claims that it is production ready. Also it feels like, to do a simple thing you have to install this or that module. I guess everyone is relying on someone else to provide that bit of function you can write in few lines of code but no you have to install this or that using npm. Angular's quick start install few hundred modules ( WTF !) . What good is a framework if it needs to rely on so many other modules ? You look at some of the configurations you need to create to make everything work with each other is just ridiculous. Every project on the Internet has different setup using pinch of this and pinch of that. It feels like you are at an international food festival where they use same basic ingredients but what they cook is up to them and everyone has their own flavor. A lot of people are praising these frameworks which makes me wonder either I am too dumb to understand all these or they are afraid that if they say this is insane they will be cast out of community or wake up from their beautiful dream. I have not given up yet but please tell me I am not going insane !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
The current state of JS is that it's in flux. Very much so. There are historical reasons for that. But most of those things don't matter for your daily work. They are set-and-forget things. Why I’m Thankful for JS Fatigue. I know you’re sick of those words, but this is different.[^]
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One day I entered the world of modern day javascript development and oh my god, what I saw is a perfect plot to drive any sane developer to become a mental zombie on the edge of killing himself and reborn and be killed again by weapon of mass destruction created by these modern day javascript frameworks. It made me first laugh and then cry and then cry some more. All the way I was asking myself why. As a developer how can you put up with something like this. I know there are lot of smart people making lot of smart tools but this is just insane. My journey began as I was trying to learn angular but before that I had to understand all those javascript jargon (which is acceptable to learn any language ) but there are bundlers, task runners, ployfills , hot module loading, linting, module loaders, minification, uglify etc. etc. Then there is grunt,gulp,systemjs,webpack, npm ,node, es6, typescript. Gone are the days when you just put a script tag in your html to your javascript and Jquery files and you are good to go. Number one issue with most of the javascript frameworks are lack of tooling support and framework itself rely on unfinished modules or modules that are still in beta and yet framework claims that it is production ready. Also it feels like, to do a simple thing you have to install this or that module. I guess everyone is relying on someone else to provide that bit of function you can write in few lines of code but no you have to install this or that using npm. Angular's quick start install few hundred modules ( WTF !) . What good is a framework if it needs to rely on so many other modules ? You look at some of the configurations you need to create to make everything work with each other is just ridiculous. Every project on the Internet has different setup using pinch of this and pinch of that. It feels like you are at an international food festival where they use same basic ingredients but what they cook is up to them and everyone has their own flavor. A lot of people are praising these frameworks which makes me wonder either I am too dumb to understand all these or they are afraid that if they say this is insane they will be cast out of community or wake up from their beautiful dream. I have not given up yet but please tell me I am not going insane !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
I, like many I suspect, have moved away from JS as there seems to be no direction to the ways of doing things. I have been a corporate dev for the last 20+ years and have realized that when developing for a company (any middle sized to large company) the constancy and quality of the code matters. This relates to what devs are allowed to use and bringing in external libraries/code too. I have worked in tightly regulated industries in the past (and probably the future too) when the only thing that is not regulated is the (re) use of other peoples code (which cannot be verified as bug free, consistency nor fir-for-purpose) and this has had me in fierce arguments with many technical and non-technical people. I get to the point that I cannot say that the software I deliver is bug free as I cannot (and will not) guarantee that dependencies are likewise. Moving away from JS just means that there are (currently) fewer options, but that is rapidly changing. Don't get me wrong, as like any dev worth their salt, I am inherently lazy. I don't want to reinvent the wheel (or MVC or EF or WPF or HTML_, but when the quality is compromised by use some else'es home project (which may or may not be flaky) in your 24/7 systems that's the end. I really don't have time to vet all the code that people bring in to the system, and the maintenance nightmare (and possibly regulatory constraints). It gets worse when your build systems are designed to update external code (ie unverified) when a build is done. You can write all the tests in the world to mitigate this behavior, but so long as an external dev doesn't break existing functionality (for good or bad) you will never know if those external modules are leaking (sensitive) data or not. :mad: :((
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One day I entered the world of modern day javascript development and oh my god, what I saw is a perfect plot to drive any sane developer to become a mental zombie on the edge of killing himself and reborn and be killed again by weapon of mass destruction created by these modern day javascript frameworks. It made me first laugh and then cry and then cry some more. All the way I was asking myself why. As a developer how can you put up with something like this. I know there are lot of smart people making lot of smart tools but this is just insane. My journey began as I was trying to learn angular but before that I had to understand all those javascript jargon (which is acceptable to learn any language ) but there are bundlers, task runners, ployfills , hot module loading, linting, module loaders, minification, uglify etc. etc. Then there is grunt,gulp,systemjs,webpack, npm ,node, es6, typescript. Gone are the days when you just put a script tag in your html to your javascript and Jquery files and you are good to go. Number one issue with most of the javascript frameworks are lack of tooling support and framework itself rely on unfinished modules or modules that are still in beta and yet framework claims that it is production ready. Also it feels like, to do a simple thing you have to install this or that module. I guess everyone is relying on someone else to provide that bit of function you can write in few lines of code but no you have to install this or that using npm. Angular's quick start install few hundred modules ( WTF !) . What good is a framework if it needs to rely on so many other modules ? You look at some of the configurations you need to create to make everything work with each other is just ridiculous. Every project on the Internet has different setup using pinch of this and pinch of that. It feels like you are at an international food festival where they use same basic ingredients but what they cook is up to them and everyone has their own flavor. A lot of people are praising these frameworks which makes me wonder either I am too dumb to understand all these or they are afraid that if they say this is insane they will be cast out of community or wake up from their beautiful dream. I have not given up yet but please tell me I am not going insane !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
You are learning Grass-Hopper... :) I have been writing about these issues in the Microsoft Community for years and everyone has seemingly gone their own way. Yet others have sounded the alarms over this very issue as well. The industry has created a "Tower of Babel" for the sake of expediency and the illusion of productivity to satisfy insane deadlines created by incompetent management. We have the Internet to blame also as it allows everyone to pile their own two-cents in without any restraint. Now we have a community that is quite a mess... And the productivity yields are hardly any better than years ago when things were much simpler to create. Of course today the emphasis is on the coolest tools to use with the latest jargon and not the creation of quality applications. And how could anyone create quality applications with so many tools that have not really been tested thoroughly for their own levels of quality. We should all simply go back to ASP.NT WebForms as the issues that MVC and JavaScript claimed to resolve have only created new ones...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Why not asp.mvc? Well, basically because of Razor. It's not a standard. And the fact that it's still windows only, while a lot of web development is done on Linux and Mac.
With .net core you have asp.net mvc on on linux and mac. With a rel. decent IDE (VS 2015/17 Code). MS is really pushing that. One of many examples:
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Why not asp.mvc? Well, basically because of Razor. It's not a standard. And the fact that it's still windows only, while a lot of web development is done on Linux and Mac.
Jeroen_R wrote:
And the fact that it's still windows only, while a lot of web development is done on Linux and Mac.
That's a very good point and I don't disagree with you. It's interesting to me that people are doing dev work on non-Windows platforms simply because the Windows tooling was so strong for a number of years for desktop when desktop kind of was all there was. Also, Razor is non-standard but it's a fairly nice rendering engine and it's all backend. Is there some comparable backend rendering engine on Linux? Maybe Java Spring type of thing or something? Just curious. Also, I wonder what % of devs on non-windows platforms is? I suppose Linux and Mac together is at least 50%, right? Interesting.
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Jeroen_R wrote:
And the fact that it's still windows only, while a lot of web development is done on Linux and Mac.
That's a very good point and I don't disagree with you. It's interesting to me that people are doing dev work on non-Windows platforms simply because the Windows tooling was so strong for a number of years for desktop when desktop kind of was all there was. Also, Razor is non-standard but it's a fairly nice rendering engine and it's all backend. Is there some comparable backend rendering engine on Linux? Maybe Java Spring type of thing or something? Just curious. Also, I wonder what % of devs on non-windows platforms is? I suppose Linux and Mac together is at least 50%, right? Interesting.
Razor is nice, when you're using C# (or VB) as your backend language. But, nowadays, a lot of backend development is done in Node (JS) or in one of the JVM languages. And there are still a lot of Python (django), Ruby (Rails) and php sites too. Also, I don't think razor supports GraphQL, which might just be the next step for backend protocol. When I go to angular conferences here in Europe, I estimate that slightly more than 50% is on Mac. When I see pictures from the states, it's more like 80%
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With .net core you have asp.net mvc on on linux and mac. With a rel. decent IDE (VS 2015/17 Code). MS is really pushing that. One of many examples:
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Razor is nice, when you're using C# (or VB) as your backend language. But, nowadays, a lot of backend development is done in Node (JS) or in one of the JVM languages. And there are still a lot of Python (django), Ruby (Rails) and php sites too. Also, I don't think razor supports GraphQL, which might just be the next step for backend protocol. When I go to angular conferences here in Europe, I estimate that slightly more than 50% is on Mac. When I see pictures from the states, it's more like 80%
Great info and look what I just stumbled upon from StackOverflow. Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016 Results - DEV DESKTOP OS[^] Shows Mac in the lead. Wow!!! And this one is really interesting...Most loved, dreaded and wanted tech... technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted Developer Survey 2016 Results[^]
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Great info and look what I just stumbled upon from StackOverflow. Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016 Results - DEV DESKTOP OS[^] Shows Mac in the lead. Wow!!! And this one is really interesting...Most loved, dreaded and wanted tech... technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted Developer Survey 2016 Results[^]
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One day I entered the world of modern day javascript development and oh my god, what I saw is a perfect plot to drive any sane developer to become a mental zombie on the edge of killing himself and reborn and be killed again by weapon of mass destruction created by these modern day javascript frameworks. It made me first laugh and then cry and then cry some more. All the way I was asking myself why. As a developer how can you put up with something like this. I know there are lot of smart people making lot of smart tools but this is just insane. My journey began as I was trying to learn angular but before that I had to understand all those javascript jargon (which is acceptable to learn any language ) but there are bundlers, task runners, ployfills , hot module loading, linting, module loaders, minification, uglify etc. etc. Then there is grunt,gulp,systemjs,webpack, npm ,node, es6, typescript. Gone are the days when you just put a script tag in your html to your javascript and Jquery files and you are good to go. Number one issue with most of the javascript frameworks are lack of tooling support and framework itself rely on unfinished modules or modules that are still in beta and yet framework claims that it is production ready. Also it feels like, to do a simple thing you have to install this or that module. I guess everyone is relying on someone else to provide that bit of function you can write in few lines of code but no you have to install this or that using npm. Angular's quick start install few hundred modules ( WTF !) . What good is a framework if it needs to rely on so many other modules ? You look at some of the configurations you need to create to make everything work with each other is just ridiculous. Every project on the Internet has different setup using pinch of this and pinch of that. It feels like you are at an international food festival where they use same basic ingredients but what they cook is up to them and everyone has their own flavor. A lot of people are praising these frameworks which makes me wonder either I am too dumb to understand all these or they are afraid that if they say this is insane they will be cast out of community or wake up from their beautiful dream. I have not given up yet but please tell me I am not going insane !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
