I’m developing a Phoenix application with a simple read/write functionality. All my friends insist that I should write only backend in Phoenix, but use one of the JavaScript frameworks for the front end (meteor, react, etc.) Should I follow their advice? The only reason I don’t want to mess with Jav…

[image] Red: For most of my projects, jQuery calls are enough to do what I needed. Just be careful with your long term investment in jQuery - it has a dangerous habit of discouraging acquisition of “proper” JavaScript skills (much in the same way many JS frameworks discourage acquisition of “…

I don’t buy this. People that hate on jQuery forget that just a few years ago it was the cure to the madness that were different browser standards and APIs. It became a victim of its own success as browsers started to converge[1]. Obviously, you should know a bit of JS before using it (though not to…

I’m partial to React, but if you’re looking for more of a framework, I suggest Ember. The performance improvements in their somewhat-recent 2.0 release have put it back on the map.

I really like this thread. I’ve learnt a lot from it. Thank you, everyone.

Why is there no mention or recommendation of Elm?

Here ya go: [image] Elm - General Discussion, Blog Posts, Wiki General Prog (Archived) I’m guessing a lot of us will be interested in using Elm with Phoenix, so starting this as a general discussion thread with this first post as a Wiki - please feel free to edit/update i…

If a person is looking to learn a framework to use in commercial projects Elm is not exactly at the top of the list :slight_smile:

Hey. NodeJS developer here. Not necessary. Especially a website similar to Hacker News. You can just use plain Elixir/Phoenix (server rendered). This will also helps easier indexing by search engine. In case you want an easy JS framework/library. I suggest React + MobX. I came from Angular, React/…

Care to share some criticism on elm? It’s maybe not ripe enough?

There is little demand for elm work, so if a person is looking to learn 1 framework and be able to make a living programming using it Elm is not an ideal candidate.

Is JavaScript framework necessary for frontend?

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AstonJ August 19, 2016, 12:12pm 27

Here ya go: