Bayle Shanks's website: notes-computer-programming-programmingLanguageDesign-prosAndCons-angular

jeswin 1 day ago

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AngularJS? has a J2EE mindset. Where libraries grow to become as hard to learn as programming languages themselves. It does not make semantic sense to me anymore.

Here is an example from the site:

  <div>
      Length (float):
      <input type="text" ng-model="length" name="length" smart-float />
      {{length}}<br />
      <span ng-show="form.length.$error.float">
        This is not a valid float number!</span>
    </div>

How semantic is ng-show="form.length.$error.float? smart-float sounds like C++. If programming languages worked like this, we wouldn't have built many apps. The problem is that some frameworks assume that everything should be done with using configuration. What ends up happening is that the configuration (and conventions) becomes its own language. This is a waste of time in the long term; library conventions are not a portable skill set.

Some things are just better off with plain JS and simple HTML. FB/Instagram's React is a much better approach to building HTML UIs; you get readable JS and HTML instead of configuration mess.

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http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-Why-React-is-Awesome

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