[olavgg]

We are 10 developers just using vanilla Javascript here. No mess, and a joy to work with. We use good old design patterns like observer, proxy, composite and so on. We also use inheritance and template literals a lot.

The key is good documentation, having an onboard plan for new developers, keeping things stupid simple and stop being bleeding edge. We want our code base to just work, so we can focus more on new features and less on maintenance.

I'm planning on writing a deeper blog post this year about why and how we feel is a good structured simple way to do frontend development. I believe there are several frustrated frontend developers out there that just want to make their life easier but currently all the arguments they find just favor 'React'....

Our whole Javascript codebase is 50k + lines. But the clients only fetch what is needed.

[ng12]

> joy to work with

Color me skeptical. React is quite literally the only framework I've ever found to be enjoyable (and maintainable).