Ask HN: Is the flood of frameworks hurting Javascript development?

Re:Ask HN: Is the flood of frameworks hurting Javascript dev... by Skywing on Monday February 07, 2011 @10:09AM (#2189131)

flavor of the week libraries? jquery has been around for a long time and is pretty standard now days. my guess is, the average web developer probably won't understand backbone.js, but jquery is pretty simple yet useful.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the flood of frameworks hurting Javascript dev... by donohoe on Monday February 07, 2011 @10:13AM (#2189143)

I don't mean to imply that JQuery, PrototypeJS, YUI and others are "flavor of the week".

What I mean is that every week I see a new FW posted on Github or elsewhere that seems to handle known problems but with a slight variation.

Obviously its more nuanced than that, but it just seems to be growing fast

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Re:Ask HN: Is the flood of frameworks hurting Javascript dev... by udp on Monday February 07, 2011 @10:31AM (#2189225)

There'd be a lot of code duplication if every snippet of JS needed to include, for example, all the browser-specific hacks that jQuery does, and all the DOM traversal, etc.

It's much cleaner if all the solutions use the same common framework, and that's (nearly) the case with jQuery.

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