Web Frameworks: Applications
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by Kit Kelly
4y ago
Applications built with web technologies, something that was a curiosity a few short years ago, have emerged onto the scene as a must have for most organizations. Transcending websites and providing users with a more open and unbounded experience, web applications are everywhere. Likely the main reason you are reading this series is to determine how modern frameworks enable you to build web applications. In previous posts in this series, we have discovered how our frameworks interact with us and how to put the basics together, but now it is time to really take in the whole album. In this post ..read more
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Web Frameworks: Foundational Technologies
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by Kit Kelly
4y ago
We have previously discussed the look and feel of web frameworks. While we often become interested in a framework based on the stylishness of the widgets and applications it can create, this may lead to a similar approach to how we have historically selected music. Traditionally, you would go out, buy an album, maybe from a band you knew, with a great album cover and a list of interesting tracks. Perhaps the album was currently #1 in its popularity on the Billboard charts? Maybe you even sample a few tracks while in the music shop. However, once you got home with your CD and played it over yo ..read more
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Web Frameworks: User Experience Design
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by Kit Kelly
4y ago
While instruments such as guitar and drums are part of a band, how they are used by the musicians define the style of the band’s music. Similarly, the elements of an application user interface connected together define the user experience. In this post as part of our ongoing series about frameworks, we are going to explore in depth the ways in which frameworks enable an overall UX design. Many of us in software engineering look at UX design as a bit of a mystical art, populated by overtly creative people, wearing checked shirts, who get upset when the button is one pixel off from their origi ..read more
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Web Frameworks: User Interface Development
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by Kit Kelly
4y ago
Whether it is Top 40 or classical or R&B, artists and music have a recognizable look and feel. When looking at frameworks, some simply provide us with a bag of instruments, while others provide us with chord progressions and album covers we can customize. This tooling forms the cornerstone of most web frameworks; an interactive user interface. In days of yore, we basically looked for a framework to provide us with a consistent set of instruments we knew we could play. Now we look for frameworks that allow us to create music tracks that we can then remix. In this article, we are going to ..read more
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If we chose our JavaScript Framework like we chose our music…
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by Kit Kelly
4y ago
…we would all be using justin-bieber.js. We as an organization have been working with JavaScript since 2000. We have seen frameworks rise and fall, including being responsible for some of them. We have seen trends come and go. We have seen browser dominance ebb and flow. We have seen winners and losers. We have seen JavaScript go from an obscure simplistic scripting language to the language of the internet. Through all of this, we have experienced and learned a lot. We would like to share some of that with you. Probably the most common question we get asked as we get to know an organiz ..read more
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React Already Did That at All Things Open 2018
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by Dylan Schiemann
4y ago
All Things Open is a large, community-created open source conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, with nearly 4,000 attendees and 20 concurrent sessions. At this year’s event, I was invited to deliver a talk similar to one I had presented at JSConf titled “React Already Did That.” The session itself is not actually about React, but about several key concepts in how the JavaScript ecosystem evolves. In the early years of JSConf, people would joke whenever someone announced something new that “Dojo already did that.” Then in 2013 at JSConf, Peter Higgins delivered the talk “Dojo Already Did That ..read more
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FullStack London 2018: Choosing a Framework
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by Lisa Flood
4y ago
At this month’s FullStack London 2018, our CEO, Dylan Schiemann, presented the talk “Choosing a Framework”, based on our Choosing a Framework blog series. Given our long history in web development, we’ve seen JavaScript evolve from an obscure simplistic scripting language to the language of the internet. We’ve seen frameworks rise and fall and it’s been a fun — but mostly frustrating — ride. As professional consultants, our customers want recommendations and answers to the question “What framework should I use?” Anyone that gives an immediate answer to that question is probably wrong. The ri ..read more
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Web Frameworks: Conclusions
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by Kit Kelly
4y ago
It has come time to read the liner notes and write some conclusions. When we started writing this blog series, we knew that JavaScript/web application frameworks were not easy to summarize. We have tried to answer the unanswerable: What framework should I use? In this post, we are going to draw some conclusions about each framework considered in this series, including what we think are their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, we will give you some parting thoughts to consider. This is part of a series on web frameworks. If you’ve missed our previous posts, you may want to start with If w ..read more
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Web Frameworks: Community
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by Kit Kelly
4y ago
It is like the old proverb, “It takes a village to raise a web framework.” As we explored in the previous post, choosing a framework goes beyond the technical features of a framework and this is certainly true when it comes to the wider community, which includes considerations like licensing, how open the framework is, and where to turn for education and support. While each web framework we have been discussing is an open source framework, there is a wide spectrum of what that actually means and how it affects the use and future development of a framework. Also, when choosing a web framework ..read more
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Web Frameworks: Soundness
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by Kit Kelly
4y ago
For a web framework to be effective, it should offer you more than just functionality. It doesn’t matter how much hard work you put into your application if it breaks when people use it. Beyond testing, let’s explore how frameworks can help us build better code before we test it. While we have been comparing web frameworks to music, soundness in this context isn’t how good the framework sounds on a turntable. It is the concept of our code being in a good condition and robust. While we should and can test for this, helping us in other ways should be one of the main benefits of using a framewo ..read more
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