Re:Ask HN: I’m falling out of love with coding
by kerkeslager on Monday February 06, 2023 @12:39PM
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Sure, but you don't have to do it the way most JS projects do it.
I've made a career writing Django apps. In most cases, the JS I write is limited to vanilla JS with no JS dependencies (the minification is done by a Python library which might depend on JS, but it's abstracted away enough that I don't have to know). There needs to be a serious amount of justification to even install Node/NPM as part of a project.
The vast majority of work is done on the backend, with JS only being used for UX. I used to pull in React+ReactDOM on some projects, but Web components are paving the way for that to no longer be necessary.
I've made a career writing Django apps. In most cases, the JS I write is limited to vanilla JS with no JS dependencies (the minification is done by a Python library which might depend on JS, but it's abstracted away enough that I don't have to know). There needs to be a serious amount of justification to even install Node/NPM as part of a project.
The vast majority of work is done on the backend, with JS only being used for UX. I used to pull in React+ReactDOM on some projects, but Web components are paving the way for that to no longer be necessary.