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The rebelling against JavaScript frameworks continues. In the latest Lex Fridman interview, AI app developer Pieter Levels explained that he builds all his apps with vanilla HTML, PHP, a bit of JavaScript via jQuery, and SQLite. No fancy JavaScript frameworks, no modern programming languages, no Wasm.

“I’m seeing a revival now,” said Levels, regarding PHP. “People are getting sick of frameworks. All the JavaScript frameworks are so… what do you call it, like [un]wieldy. It takes so much work to just maintain this code, and then it updates to a new version, you need to change everything. PHP just stays the same and works.”

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Idk where else to say this, so I'll just say it here. I hate React.js. At first I was intrigued by it, then confused, then amazed, and finally disgusted. After years worth of working on React projects, and using React sites, I've finally decided it's an affront to all good development standards. It violates so many best practices, and breaks a ton of built in browser functionality that you should get for free. So you have all these thousands of developers writing custom code for basic shit like browser history, state refresh, back buttons, etc., and half of them get it wrong. Now we have huge websites from companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and their sites are broken pieces of shit. So, again, I hate React.

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