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by m33k44 2655 days ago
I recently made a decision on the following front-end stack:

- Bootstrap 3.x

- jQuery

- KnockoutJS

because of the following reasons:

- The devices that will be accessing the web app may have older browsers, both desktop and mobile.

- My users will be in geography where network connection is sometimes slow.

- These libraries have been in the wild for very long time and time tested with lot of support available on public forums.

- Very easy to get started.

- As I am not primarily a front-end web developer, I am not in a position to handle various quirks of different browsers; if libraries such as bootstrap, jquery and knockoutjs handle that for me for older devices and browsers then it is useful.

If I had an option to go for a more modern stack, then I would have gone with svelte.technology, unpolyjs and bootstrap.