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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by jdnenej on Thursday August 08, 2019 @04:55AM (#20642866)
Plain JS is the same. How often do you search something and find the 2012 way includes copying a 20 line util function and the latest way has it built in to the language.
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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by xyzzyz on Thursday August 08, 2019 @08:05PM (#20650183)
Easy, just don't write JS. For most sites, there's hardly any need for it. On HN, for example JavaScript is only 150 lines[1].

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js

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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by jdnenej on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:29PM (#20650874)
And you can tell. The page reloads when you want to edit a comment. Also hacker News is one of the simplest use cases ever.
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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by xyzzyz on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:26PM (#20651108)
The page reloads when you want to edit a comment.

Yes, and it takes less than a second (checked in Chrome performance console) to do it. I'm happy with that.

Also hacker News is one of the simplest use cases ever.

Note that 95% of Facebook by usage (scrolling through feed, liking and commenting) doesn't have much more functionality than HN.

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