In 2016 React cemented its position as king of the Javascript web frameworks. This year saw rapid growth of both its web and native mobile libraries, and a comfortable lead over main rival Angular…
Having a monolithic approach to a large front-end app becomes unwieldly. There needs to be a way of breaking it up into smaller modules that can act independently.
I work on a library called Polymer, which helps you write web components faster and easier. This is awesome, but it’s only awesome if you (yes, YOU) know what a web component is, and know that you want to write one. So here’s a story about what these things are and teaches you how to use them without showing you 10 pages of docs and getting you to install tools and CLIs. Maybe it’s for you. Maybe it isn’t. In either case, it has otters.
With all the new libraries and frameworks it is pretty hard to keep up with all of them, and that is if you can even decide which ones are worth spending time over.
Have you noticed my overly diplomatic title? It’s an attempt to frame this conversation in terms of what I prefer rather than what I believe to be objectively better in hope of diverting a flame war…
An opinionated comparison of react vs angular2. go through the blog to understand what fits you best. a critical overview of two popular front-end technologies.
Around the time I first published this I started assessing this myself. It is never an easy decision because there is so much to consider. Rob Eisenberg is a JavaScript framework expert. He is the…
In this post, we are going to look at just one aspect of the Microservice architecture: client-side integration. In particular, we will examine the pros and cons of thick vs thin client proxies. We will not focus on the web or external client technologies such as your web app’s JavaScript code or your mobile app’s code.
This post is a tutorial for writing a next-gen JavaScript Framework & solving problems regarding extendibility, dependency injection and private variables.
I have my own biases and preconceptions, but I want to state them openly and then make a sincere attempt to discuss other frameworks. I’m also trying to discuss these not with reference to myself but to a large degree as whether I recommend them to someone learning.