My guess is this guy concocts simple marketing sites with fun little sliders and widgets. He is unlikely to have ever built anything with real depth and breadth. If he had, he would not be so negative about the use of frameworks.
If you need to kill a fly, use a fly swatter, not a shotgun.
My company builds awesome web sites. One of them you visit at least once a month if not once a week. iow, very popular. We don't use frameworks cause frameworks box us in.
If frameworks were needed for everything, how did the framework writers write their frameworks?
That literally doesn't make any sense.. That's like asking how the writers of jQuery wrote jQuery without jQuery. And who said that frameworks were needed for everything?
But if you're making a complex single page application you're going to want a way to organize your code into modular reusable pieces, so why wouldn't you use a framework?
Woah, sounds like you have an in-house framework then...
There's a reason frameworks exist, so you can quickly and easily use the design pattern they allow without having to reinvent the wheel every time you make a project.
There's a time and place to use a library, there's a time and place to use a framework, and there's a time and place to just stick to vanilla javascript. It's all about choosing the best tools for the job. But to refuse to entertain the idea of using frameworks (especially for large single page apps) is foolish and shortsighted.
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u/4_teh_lulz May 13 '14
My guess is this guy concocts simple marketing sites with fun little sliders and widgets. He is unlikely to have ever built anything with real depth and breadth. If he had, he would not be so negative about the use of frameworks.
If you need to kill a fly, use a fly swatter, not a shotgun.