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Michael Paccione
Michael Paccione

Reputation: 2807

Building web applications with tools that last

I recently began as a web designer but spend more and more time learning front end web development. I enjoy Javascript and the work. I am very interested in creating web applications unfortunately I find that Javascript frameworks change so quickly. I began learning Angular 1.3 only to find the release of 2.0 to kill my interest. I also worry that learning frameworks will not help my skill as a developer only as a framework user. It makes me want to just develop with modular Vanilla.

What recommendations do you have for creating web applications with this problem in mind? I greatly appreciate your comments.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 156

Answers (2)

Fritz Duchardt
Fritz Duchardt

Reputation: 11860

You could resort to Google Trends to figure out which technologies last and where the trend is going. A quick research points very much to the study of jQuery (even though AngularJS trend is more impressive):

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=AngularJS%2C%20%2Fm%2F0268gyp%2C%20%2Fm%2F02p97&cmpt=q&tz=

Going Vanilla is always a good idea in order to strengthen your understanding of the fundamentals - learning some popular frameworks is essential to work productively and find good projects!

Upvotes: 0

Dirk Dunn
Dirk Dunn

Reputation: 363

One of the best things you can learn as a developer is to ALWAYS find a solution before creating one.

Yes, vanilla Javascript surely has it's place, for as you progress as a developer, you too will want to write your own javascript.

I recently just got into MEAN stack development, and I can definitely say if I were to try to write all of this by hand, especially if your not an expert, would be a nightmare, if not impossible/impractical.

I understand the craving / desire, we all have it. We start to code and feel like wizards when we can conjure up this neat program we build all by ourselves. But we also have to realize there is a little bit of reasoning behind utilizing frameworks, just take this into perspective, taking MEAN stack as an example,

Right now, there are a team of developers working on MongoDB, a team of developers working on Angular, Express, NodeJS etc.

Each of these frameworks is being FOCUSED on and perfected, think about that for a second. These aren't things that are just thrown together, these are strong written frameworks, and when combined together, can make an awesome toolset.

Building your own library can also be a good idea, and I would encourage it, especially for CUSTOM solutions. This can be fun and creative.

However, as for making the strongest web framework you can have, it would take more work than whats practical. Utilizing the work of others is one of the most important things you can do as a developer! Good luck.

Upvotes: 1

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