<story><title>Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)</title><url>https://turriate.com/articles/modern-javascript-everything-you-missed-over-10-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BrissyCoder</author><text>&amp;gt; simplicity of the web technologies in general&lt;p&gt;Are we looking at the same web technologies here or are you from an alternative universe?</text></item><item><author>lukicdarkoo</author><text>Professionally, I do embedded and robotics, but once a year I find an excuse to create a simple web application (to stay updated). Every time, I get impressed by power and simplicity of the web technologies in general. In JavaScript those are things mentioned in the article + WebComponents. For CSS those are flexboxes, grids, and animations. In my opinion, React made a revolution with hooks and contexts. I love the direction in which the web world has been going!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>Try writing a GUI with other toolkits. Hours of tweaking random XML to try and figure out why some constraint solving thing just isn&amp;#x27;t working...&lt;p&gt;Despite all the mess, I have an easier time getting buttons on a screen and doing things sanely (once all the fuss is set up) compared to trying to get the ball rolling in Qt&amp;#x2F;GTK&amp;#x2F;etc (especially if you&amp;#x27;re not using Java or C++)</text></comment>
<story><title>Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)</title><url>https://turriate.com/articles/modern-javascript-everything-you-missed-over-10-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BrissyCoder</author><text>&amp;gt; simplicity of the web technologies in general&lt;p&gt;Are we looking at the same web technologies here or are you from an alternative universe?</text></item><item><author>lukicdarkoo</author><text>Professionally, I do embedded and robotics, but once a year I find an excuse to create a simple web application (to stay updated). Every time, I get impressed by power and simplicity of the web technologies in general. In JavaScript those are things mentioned in the article + WebComponents. For CSS those are flexboxes, grids, and animations. In my opinion, React made a revolution with hooks and contexts. I love the direction in which the web world has been going!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zodiakzz</author><text>I am a senior web developer with 12 years of experience, also perplexed by that statement.&lt;p&gt;Edit: The React repo is 3 million+ lines of code, written in its own niche language...</text></comment>