Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers
by jpgvm on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:32AM
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I don't think anyone really has strong opinions about JS on the frontend. It seems relatively fit for purpose there.
Most contention I have seen is around attempting to apply it outside the browser. That path only seems to lead to misery.
Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers
by y4mi on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:07AM
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But js backend has been even more stable with express being the defacto standard since the beginning...
Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers
by jpgvm on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @05:21AM
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Express isn't a framework though, maybe a "micro-framework". The nearest competitor to real frameworks like ASP.NET or Spring is Nest.js and it's definitely not got the same longevity as those stalwarts.
in the beginning, JS wasn't really transcoded/compiled. The first time i personally found out about that was sometime after 2010 with coffeescript, not sure if there were preceeding examples.
and your claim that people move around is really false. React has been the defacto standard for a pretty long time at this point.
yes, other UI libraries/frameworks exist, but reacts marketshare has been extremely dominant since it displaced jquery/ember etc