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by akamel 3963 days ago
in the long run a few front runners will dominate; but right now diversity is good... it allows us to work out what works and what doesn't.

the hardest part of making a framework isn't manpower; it's design, architecture, algorithms...
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collyw 3963 days ago
The amount of diversity in JavaScript frameworks is NOT good in my opinion (a back end dev who needs to get a bit of front end stuff done every so often).
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marrs 3963 days ago
It's not like you have to use all or any of them. It's more of a problem if you're a front-end dev looking for work and feel obliged to learn whatever is trending at the moment.
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Offler 3963 days ago
Really? You have React, Angular and Ember. Three libraries or frameworks for building web applications. If you aren't building a web application you might not need any of them.

Just use React as the other two are copying/converging toward React.

All the other web app UI frameworks? Noise, they won't amount to much and add very little. The last release worth paying attention to was React 2 years ago. Hardly a breakneck pace.

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collyw 3963 days ago
Angular 1 or Angular 2? What about Backbone? Meteor? There are a LOT more than 3 frameworks. The choice is overwhelming when you are not a specialist in JS and its difficult to know where to begin.

(Though having tested React recently, its the best of the ones I have used).

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