I was dead wrong about those JavaScript frameworks for 6 months

I spent half a year hating on React and Vue because I thought they were just hype from people who couldn't write plain JS. My excuse was always 'I can build the same thing with vanilla code in less time.' Then my buddy forced me to sit down and build a small weather app with Vue last Tuesday. Took me 2 hours to make something that would have taken me 2 days of fighting with vanilla DOM manipulation. The part that got me was how easy it was to update the UI when the data changed - no more manually hunting down elements and innerHTML. I still think people overcomplicate things sometimes, but now I get why beginners should start with a framework instead of fighting the DOM. Anyone else have a moment where you finally caved and tried something you swore was pointless?

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ryan_ellis29d ago

That weather app story hits close to home, had the same exact moment with React last year.

piper91228d ago

Yeah the weather tutorial is basically the hello world of everything at this point. I had that same sinking feeling with a to-do list app a few months back, it's weird how much you can learn from a simple project.