Class
Plenty of developers now use OOP as standard, and so have been implementing objects in JavaScript for years. Up until now, we’ve been using both frameworks and our own home-brewed solutions, because working with classes in ES5 was a total pain. That always struck me as strange, because it was clear from the outset that ES5 was designed to support classes—in fact, the keyword CLASS was reserved. What this led to was arguments. Everyone turned to their favorite framework and used it to create a...
Class
Plenty of developers now use OOP as standard, and so have been implementing objects in JavaScript for years. Up until now, we’ve been using both frameworks and our own home-brewed solutions, because working with classes in ES5 was a total pain. That always struck me as strange, because it was clear from the outset that ES5 was designed to support classes—in fact, the keyword CLASS was reserved. What this led to was arguments. Everyone turned to their favorite framework and used it to create a...
The promise of ES6
This is the context, then, in which ES6 was released. ES6—also called ECMAScript2015—is the most recent version of JavaScript. It changed some of the fundamental ways we use the language. It introduced a number of new features that the community had been calling for for years. At first glance, the claim that ES6 will make JavaScript frameworks obsolete seems pretty absurd, because the changes made in ES6 were (at least according to some authors) little more than syntactical tweaks. Seeing the...
The promise of ES6
This is the context, then, in which ES6 was released. ES6—also called ECMAScript2015—is the most recent version of JavaScript. It changed some of the fundamental ways we use the language. It introduced a number of new features that the community had been calling for for years. At first glance, the claim that ES6 will make JavaScript frameworks obsolete seems pretty absurd, because the changes made in ES6 were (at least according to some authors) little more than syntactical tweaks. Seeing the...
AngularJS
The fact that AngularJS has to appear on this list at all is indicative of one of the issues with JavaScript frameworks—that while they will become obsolete, people won’t necessarily stop using them. Plenty of developers, in fact, will tell you that AngularJS is still “the best” way to code JavaScript, even though the framework is (a) deprecated and (b) difficult to understand for anyone who hasn’t spent years using it. This second issue—of code that is almost impossible to understand—was act...
AngularJS
The fact that AngularJS has to appear on this list at all is indicative of one of the issues with JavaScript frameworks—that while they will become obsolete, people won’t necessarily stop using them. Plenty of developers, in fact, will tell you that AngularJS is still “the best” way to code JavaScript, even though the framework is (a) deprecated and (b) difficult to understand for anyone who hasn’t spent years using it. This second issue—of code that is almost impossible to understand—was act...
JavaScript frameworks
JavaScript frameworks exist as a tool for developers to abstract away some of the more complex aspects of developing front-end applications. And while frameworks have undeniably been very useful tools, advances in JavaScript’s web component specs have made developing new front-end applications (such as single-page applications) without existing frameworks much easier. This has raised the question of whether frameworks are still even necessary. Let’s take a look at the most popular JavaScript ...
JavaScript frameworks
JavaScript frameworks exist as a tool for developers to abstract away some of the more complex aspects of developing front-end applications. And while frameworks have undeniably been very useful tools, advances in JavaScript’s web component specs have made developing new front-end applications (such as single-page applications) without existing frameworks much easier. This has raised the question of whether frameworks are still even necessary. Let’s take a look at the most popular JavaScript ...
JavaScript frameworks
JavaScript frameworks exist as a tool for developers to abstract away some of the more complex aspects of developing front-end applications. And while frameworks have undeniably been very useful tools, advances in JavaScript’s web component specs have made developing new front-end applications (such as single-page applications) without existing frameworks much easier. This has raised the question of whether frameworks are still even necessary. Let’s take a look at the most popular JavaScript ...
JavaScript frameworks
JavaScript frameworks exist as a tool for developers to abstract away some of the more complex aspects of developing front-end applications. And while frameworks have undeniably been very useful tools, advances in JavaScript’s web component specs have made developing new front-end applications (such as single-page applications) without existing frameworks much easier. This has raised the question of whether frameworks are still even necessary. Let’s take a look at the most popular JavaScript ...
