Re:Ask HN: Is the flood of frameworks hurting Javascript dev...
by robwgibbons on Monday February 07, 2011 @12:17PM
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I know exactly what you mean.
I recommend learning JavaScript itself very well before you choose a framework. I wrote pure, vanilla JavaScript for everything for almost a year. I wrote a small library of helper functions.
After a year or so of trying to avoid "investing" myself in a JavaScript library, I chose jQuery, and I have not looked back since.
I really cannot recommend jQuery enough. Not to be a fanboy or anything, but it seems to have largely won the JS library war, for the most part. You really can't go wrong with it.
I recommend learning JavaScript itself very well before you choose a framework. I wrote pure, vanilla JavaScript for everything for almost a year. I wrote a small library of helper functions.
After a year or so of trying to avoid "investing" myself in a JavaScript library, I chose jQuery, and I have not looked back since.
I really cannot recommend jQuery enough. Not to be a fanboy or anything, but it seems to have largely won the JS library war, for the most part. You really can't go wrong with it.