JavaScript Framework Thread - Since there's a new one every few months we might as well have a dedicated thread

[Angry Shoes]

What JS framework(s) do you guys use? I usually just use vanilla JS with JQuery calls, but I've been reading a lot about Angular lately. It looks like a way to build really sleek, modern-looking web pages.

 

[garakfan69]

If you're masochistic enough to use this crap at home, that's your business.

But think of the poor visitors of sites built with this crap, that you force to download and run megabytes of awful buggy JS code. Just so you could have a site that looks "modern", which just means it's awful to use on anything but a phone or tablet and runs like shit.

 

[BingBong]

JS is gay.

 

[Angry Shoes]

I mostly want to do it for market value. Most front-end jobs want experience in some sort of modern framework (Angular, React, Vue, etc).

 

[Coolio55]

Bro, Google is discontinuing Angular. I can't wait for the massive meltdowns this shit will cause.

 

[teriyakiburns]

React and Vue are the big hot. Dig into typescript while you're at it.

Only learn jQuery if you're wanting to get paid to maintain legacy code. It's as dead- end in a world with modern browsers, webpack, and polyfill.io.

 

[Splendid]

Bro, Google is discontinuing Angular. I can't wait for the massive meltdowns this shit will cause.

That was AngularJS, the old version. The modern version is just plain Angular, and development is still ongoing there

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

i use AngularJS every day only because the project I spend all my time working on was built with it, I would suggest learning native javascript then you can figure out pretty much any framework you come across.

 

[Cryonic Haunted Bullets]

Elm is pretty dank, and way less of a headache than react/vue.

 

[Angry Shoes]

Gonna go with React first. It seems really popular at the moment.