[tambourine_man]

I remember when I was messing with MooTools and Prototype and then I saw jQuery. OMG, yes, I want that! So powerful, freeing and easy.

I've never felt that way since with JS.

Backbone didn't have much appeal. Angular, I knew I didn't want to touch it with a ten foot pole. React was interesting, but usually more trouble than it was worth. Vue feels the nicest of the bunch, but not breathtaking.

I guess what I'm saying is that, after seeing jQuery, I knew I would not use anything else. It solved a problem so well (DOM manipulation) there was no need to.

With recent JS frameworks, it feels like we haven't even defined or come to agree on what the problem we are trying to solve is.

[robertoandred]

The problem being solved IS (manual) DOM manipulation. It's messy and error-prone. Using React et al to generate the DOM as a clear function of state is much better.

[tambourine_man]

I’m not convinced.

Again, jQuery was an easy sell. Saying manual DOM manipulation is messy… not so much.

[mattacular]

Agreed! It seems as though something will eventually come along and wholesale replace the need for React, Angular, Vue et al just as jQuery did to prototype, dojo, and moo.