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Re:It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by bus... by mohanmcgeek on Sunday October 10, 2021 @01:34AM (#28816019)
> There was a time not so long ago where it seemed like every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework.

I know it feels this way but it was in fact a very long time ago. That was 2011-2012ish IIRC

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Re:It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by bus... by hobofan on Sunday October 10, 2021 @06:29AM (#28817299)
It did definitely drag on for far longer than that.

2009-2012 was the time of post-jQuery, with a lot of discourse around better alternatives to that (e.g. underscore.js, backbone.js).

React was released in 2013, which sparked a lot of offshoots. Vue came in 2014, and Angular in 2016, which I would say is the earliest point where you could see a significant drop in the activity.

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Re:It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by bus... by mohanmcgeek on Monday October 11, 2021 @03:54AM (#28825886)
IIRC the front-end JavaScript frameworks had considerably less coverage than node.js projects.

2011-2014 was the time everything that could be written in js was written in js. Didn't matter if it was a good idea, I just loved the energy here!

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Re:It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by bus... by na85 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @01:42AM (#28816049)
Maybe. I lurked for a long while before creating my account in 2012 so that sounds about right.
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