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>I don’t think you actually answered the question but I totally don’t mind because it was a fun read.

That's probably the better outcome here. If you know enough things to find what I wrote entertaining, rather than vexing, chances are you're able to pick right tools for jobs just fine.

Meanwhile treadmills are gonna treadmill; if I've got one answer to everything it's to stay off them. Mighty difficult when everyone's trying to drag you onto one.

I do recall some distinct issues with properties introduced on objects after initiating the component not being reactive

Wasn't that what they fixed using Proxy (making ES6 finally a hard requirement for anything at all)?

>Old Vue is nice, we still have some Vue apps and they’re just running without major headaches. >but it has mostly been an acceptable experience

Better than one could say about the current generation stacks. Big vibe like vendors are trying to cargocult ZIRP-associated patterns (as if those were what produced value in pre-2020s Web and totally not all the human creativity that used to be channeled into the medium before the masks started falling off.)

> Wasn't that what they fixed using Proxy (making ES6 finally a hard requirement for anything at all)?

Maybe, but I haven't touched Vue in a long time.

> Better than one could say about the current generation stacks.

For sure. I still have some projects that use what I like to call "jQueryScript", where there's just a bunch of unprocessed (or only minified) JS files with `$("#foo").click(function() { ... })` stuff everywhere. Looking back, it wasn't all that bad.

I just wish there was a pattern that is simple, works with plain, modern JS without any big dependencies (I don't want 600 node modules installing a frontend framework, please) and is easily modular and integrates nicely with other stuff (so likely either manipulating DOM nodes directly or using WebComponents)

Out of protest, I have some smaller projects that have their GUI templates stored in `<template>` tags and manipulated with plain Javascript. Anyone that opens the code will see it and think "wtf?" and then be like "oh... uh sure". The largest one I had written was 1000s of lines of code like that, kinda like a classical MVC pattern where a view (class manipulating DOM nodes) renders a model (a JS object or class). The controller would subscribe to custom events (defined by the view), update the model and call `render()` on the view. It had a lot of small classes, which was a bit too verbose to my liking.

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