Earlier this week, I wrote about how I’m building a UI library for people who love HTML. I also published a YouTube video about it.
I got a lot of excited responses and comments about it, but also a noteworthy handful asking something along the lines of this…
People should not be prioritizing no-JS users. No one turns off JavaScript.
Today, I wanted to talk about why that’s wrong, and why you should care about the no-JS experience.
JavaScript sucks. I hate using it I hate coding it.
I whitelist js sources on my personal computer.
Only absolutely necessary for function scripts get loaded.
If they ask me to disable the adblocker I blacklist the domain.
I’ve done more than 18 years of dev work. I only hate js. All the other parts of the job are fine. Other languages are fine as well. I’ve had to learn so many. Hell I know cobol right along side ruby.
Js sucks. It sucks to debug. Its frameworks still have issues with basic stuff like many to many relationships.
All the solutions that don’t use or use it sparingly work for years. The ones that rely on the language usually die a firey death by npm/yarn or get deprecated within 6 months.
Js frameworks make php frameworks seems stable efficient and logical by comparison.
Yikes.
Modern day php and laravel is actually not terrible.
But yeah I agree with you.
Laravel is shit.
I can believe it became popular only because devs don’t care about the code.
Not sure what you mean by that. Do you mean ORMs? Which one and when did you try it?
Javascript is like Dungeons and dragons. It’s a mess, weighed down by legacy decisions, too heavy in some places and too light in others, and used in far more places than it should be. It also has some diehard fans, and some diehard fans who have never used anything else.