Re:Eating our own dog food (for lunch)
by thomaspurchas on Monday September 30, 2013 @08:55PM
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A stupendous amount. Before starting this project I had never done any complex frontend stuff. Pretty much just HTML CSS and a bit of jQuery.
With this one project I learned about backbone, marionette and the limits of what can be done on the frontend. It was quite a big learning curve, and even now I'm still discovering where the correct balance of frontend-back end stuff is.
Overall a great experience, really opened my eyes to the power of JavaScript, before I had adamantly stuck to nothing more exciting than HTML forms with JS validation.
With this one project I learned about backbone, marionette and the limits of what can be done on the frontend. It was quite a big learning curve, and even now I'm still discovering where the correct balance of frontend-back end stuff is.
Overall a great experience, really opened my eyes to the power of JavaScript, before I had adamantly stuck to nothing more exciting than HTML forms with JS validation.