Re:Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective
by machiaweliczny on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @04:00AM
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Novices don't need any of this - Babel and webpack are for pros who need to support IE9. I have in my team 19 year old who knows all this stuff to implementation detail, so it's not that hard to learn - speaks more about this friend.
Novices should be referred to preset codesandbox.
Re:Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective
by extra88 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @07:41AM
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The article didn't mention Babel or Webpack, the first attempts to use the module were with Node, not in a browser.
There's blame to go around but I mostly blame npm for being full of hot garbage while obscuring what is garbage and hot.
She wasn’t helping one of her students, she was helping a friend who is a computer scientist. The closing thought was if this person, with so much existing knowledge and some assistance, can’t make one “simple” thing work in a reasonable timeframe, what hope do actual novices have?