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Re:The front end community wants to wash its hands of the de... by christophilus on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:51AM (#33287465)
I’ve written quite a few old-school web apps in Rails and ASP.Net. Unless you stuck to really basic stuff, they were much harder for me to reason about than the React codebases I’ve been on. jQuery consists of trying to reason about accidentally over aggressive global event handlers and effects, etc.

I prefer the modern mess.

It’s still a mess, though.

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