Re:Rebuilding the Shopify Admin: Deleting 28k lines of JavaS...
by funion on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @11:38PM
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You're dead on. We started work on Batman some time ago now - options then were quite limited.
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Re:Rebuilding the Shopify Admin: Deleting 28k lines of JavaS...
by tericho on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @12:35AM
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2 years ago I was exploring frameworks for an enterprise project. I tried Batman along with most others, I can easily see why building your own framework would have been an option any earlier than that.
Most frameworks weren't even at 1.0 stable yet. I initially wrote a fairly extensive prototype with Ember, but there were breaking changes so frequently I couldn't keep up with the learning curve. In the end I chose Angular because it had the best documentation, Google dogfooding, and testing was an obvious priority. Worked out so well we're on our 4th major Angular app now.