Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs
Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs
Learning modern JavaScript is tough if you haven’t been there since the beginning. The ecosystem is growing and changing so rapidly that…
This article is from 2017. I'm sure it would have been useful at the time, but it's not covering present-day JavaScript.
You should check out "post modern JavaScript explained for mammoths"
Dinosaur here. I started building web sites when JavaScript had yet to be invented. If articles like this exist for new features introduced since EcmaScript 5, I'm all ears.
This is an interesting artifact because most of these pain points have been effectively solved. Not that there aren't any difficulties left in cutting edge web dev. For example, we're still wrangling the frontiers of mixed rendering modes. But between Vite and now Bun, the average dev never has to worry about bundling or module syntax compatibility. Things Just Work. Thanks for the reminder of how quickly the web is continuing to advance GUIs and DX.
I remember reading this article from the Odin project.
You caught me i'm guilty
The main reason why I despise modern web development.