Echo JS 0.11.0

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tracker1 2865 days ago. link 3 points
I've actually been a pretty big fan of JS since very early on.  I remember using it with Netscape's server in the 90's, then again with classic ASP sharing business logic client and server long before node... for a while I kind of jumped ship for early ASP.Net, but there was so much friction and performance was pitiful for the overhead.

By 2003-2004 I was ready to jump back into JS, Firebird^wFirefox was coming into vogue, and Ajax wasn't there yet.  However, many of the DOM differences had gone away and by the time we got jQuery, it was already gotten better.  The Good Parts put to book form what I'd known about JS for years before.  After node and npm came into being, it got so much better.  I know setting up a webpack config can be cumbersome, but once you pass that hurdle, the rest of an app's development can be so much better[1].  I love React + Redux + modules for application development in the browser, and feel it should be done this way.  I've seen many technologies come and go, adopted some, and passed over others.  In the end, we're hitting a point where things actually feel like the right way to do things... less friction, easier refactoring.