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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday October 11 2016, @12:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the noscript-makes-this-tougher dept.

Depending on who you ask, right now JavaScript is either turning into a modern, reliable language, or a bloated, overly complex dependency hell. Or maybe both?

What's more, there's just so many options: Do you use React or Angular 2? Do you really need Webpack? And what's this month's recommended way of dealing with CSS?

Like you, I spent far too many hours reading about all this, and at the end I still wasn't sure. So I decided to create a survey to see what everybody else thought. It seems like I must've hit a nerve, because I got over 9000 answers in just over two weeks!

Further down in the article, the survey results are listed, though not in an easily scrape-able format. Oddly enough, the site degrades gracefully, and does not require Javascript to be enabled.

http://stateofjs.com/2016/introduction/

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @07:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @07:34PM (#413073)

    Fat clients are a bad idea.

    Thin clients may be boring, but more reliable and easier to deploy on, assuming eye-candy-fad-chasing is not your primary goal.

    We just need a decent thin-client standard. For one, just make the client a dumb vector coordinate processor and put the layout engine on the server. I'm tired of testing web pages on 50 odd client brand/version variations and having stuff position all funny on some due to some slight variation in layout/render logic.

    It's focking insane! Vulcans would puke; it's irrational. Bad humans!

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