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Discussion on: What would the ideal web framework look like?

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Renan "Firehawk" Lazarotto

The ideal framework would be one that doesn't try to put web technologies into everything. Ideally, web frameworks should stay web frameworks. Electron, React Native, stuff like that doesn't make sense to me - why reuse a web-language to do non-web stuff? Just because we can?
Now, sticking to the web, anything that doesn't rely on node_modules (or better - that doesn't rely on the Node way of doing things) at all, no bundling, with the minimal tooling possible. Just plain JS files that you can drop into your HTML files and be good to go.
Seriously speaking, front-end development is a nightmare. Even the so-hated PHP is a better language to work with (for me) because it is so much simpler!

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Frontender

He is talking about Javascript frameworks that work on user interface not desktop or mobile apps

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Siddharth • Edited

The ideal framework would be one that doesn't try to put web technologies into everything.

We reuse a web-language to do non-web stuff because nobody wants to learn a whole new language and maintain a different codebase for non-web stuff like apps.

nything that doesn't rely on node_modules (or better - that doesn't rely on the Node way of doing things) at all, no bundling, with the minimal tooling possible

While the no-node way is easier, it's not very flexible. You can't have multiple file components, or stuff like that. If you need those, in the end you will have to compile it.