I disagree too. Frontend is getting more complex each day, and I find that functional programming languages help a lot with large projects. Frontend SPA's are crying for help with the exploding complexity :)
Good point on the complexity of today web apps. I'm not really into web front-end and my comment was more about native frontend development, where you need to add/remove things from screen, run animations, you know, those sort of things that are inherently non-functional. Sorry for not being clearer.
So, if we only want to call a couple of animations and submit a form, I agree that a small script with three jQuery-style functions can do the job.
But that's rarely the case nowadays, in my experience. Almost every frontend project I came across professionally became a full application at some point.
There's the need of dealing with concurrent user interactions, online data requests to the server, non-traditional form behaviors, different routes...
cmoscoso|9 years ago
lucasmreis|9 years ago
So, if we only want to call a couple of animations and submit a form, I agree that a small script with three jQuery-style functions can do the job.
But that's rarely the case nowadays, in my experience. Almost every frontend project I came across professionally became a full application at some point.
There's the need of dealing with concurrent user interactions, online data requests to the server, non-traditional form behaviors, different routes...