I asked the same question last year and to be honest, building a SPA is tough with just jQuery. It's more of my needs changing, I don't think SPA can be ignored in 2017, the progressive web app and AMP will put a huge dent in the native apps space.
I just like to think that I'm developing a mobile app with front-end javascript framework....it's just the tooling and prerequisite knowledge is quite chaotic. Finding the right articles (up to date) is half the battle, as it's scattered in endless git repo pages.
Run `( find -E ./ -regex '.*\.jsx?' -print0 | xargs -0 cat ) | wc -l` inside your `node_modules/` folder. It counts lines of code in JS files. Prepare to be sad.
I'm not sure why an SPA with jQuery is tough. $.ajax. Send data. Do stuff in a back-end. Return data. Update divs. If it is tough, you might be trying too hard. I'm not trying to be glib... it just sounds like you might be buying into the over-complexity that the original question was talking about.
My experience is with c# and knockout, which is pretty similar to rails and vue. I've found the sweet spot to avoid SPA's (which I'm pretty sure you can do with vue). Generate the html server side and only use javascript for the dynamic parts where it makes sense.
Absolutely! Unfortunately, this is very hard to sell to teammates on the SPA bandwagon and management who require all developers to be buzzword-compliant.
brilliantcode|9 years ago
I just like to think that I'm developing a mobile app with front-end javascript framework....it's just the tooling and prerequisite knowledge is quite chaotic. Finding the right articles (up to date) is half the battle, as it's scattered in endless git repo pages.
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