Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?

Re:Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development? by jraph on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:46PM (#32781599)

Please don't burn out for this. Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS is just a very right way of building a website. I don't know how we ended up having to even debate about this.

Don't worry, just enjoy the simplicity, the zen and the lightness of this.

(from a professional web developer, if it even matters - but the web, especially JS, was not targeted at professional web developers, which is the reason why JS is so "forgiving" - or was intended as such, but that failed miserably if you ask me)

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Re:Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development? by rodolphoarruda on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:54PM (#32781742)

Yes. Some things should be designed as simple as possible so they can last.

https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last

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Re:Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development? by daveslash on Friday September 09, 2022 @01:26PM (#32782247)

I've updated my comment to reflect that I'm burned out on catching the flak, but not the work itself. Personally, I love basking in the zen of the simplicity! I used to be a professional web developer in a former life, but these days I'm more medical-device and embedded focused. I moved out of the web space around the time that AngularJS was becoming the hot-new-thing, for better or worse.

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