I love JavaScript. I hate JavaScript tooling and frameworks. I hate the fact that everything changes in a matter of months.
Don’t get me wrong. Big frameworks are needed, of course, to bring standardization and uniformity to big projects. I can’t imagine how more complex a project like Oxygen Builder would be if it was built without Angular or any other framework.
But I can’t stand when people use powerful frameworks to build minimal projects when all they needed is plain vanilla JavaScript.
Also, I don’t hate things. I dislike them.
My face turns red of dislike 🙂 when seeing a single-page personal site built with Next.js. But who am I to criticize? I’m the guy using a full-blown blogging suite and dev platform just to write an occasional paragraph.
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