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by anthony_doan 2018 days ago
I'm still using Bootstrap and Jquery for my side projects.

It helps lower the amount of technology I use in my stack.

From my experience maintaining frontend technology is not as simple as backend.

I've come to the conclusion that data is the most important thing, so my concentration is mostly on getting the database right then build out with a backend rendering framework. So the presentation is not as important in the initial phases and bootstrap is good enough.

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My rule of thumb: Always use jQuery (or nothing) unless there is an explicit need to upgrade to React/Angular/VUE.

Spoiler alert, there rarely is a need.

Totally agree.

- Bootstrap - Jquery - Handlebars

should be enough for many small to medium sized applications

+1 for jQuery + htmx + jinja2 in the exact same context.