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thepianodanon Make Your Phone a Tool

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thepianodanon Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?

> React is a lot more stable than I think you're giving it credit for.

I'm glad they take good care of backwards compatibility. React was the most common example, I didn't intend to target it specifically.

Not all frameworks are like this though. Svelte 5 introduced many breaking changes, with plans to deprecate the classic Svelte 4 syntax. So that forces many projects to spend time migrating to the newer version.

> The idea that not using a frontend framework will let you focus on delivering features seems reductive...

Agreed, appreciate the healthy arguments. :)

thepianodanon Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?

Thank you for your perspective (and the code example on the other comment)! You make a good point about debugging, once I'm stepping into the framework, it's like uncharted territory.

thepianodanon Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?

Thank you for your comment (and replies). This makes me realize that we can also actively choose which patterns of a framework we want to use, and which aspects of a project are better built to work independently.

Also, so cool that you got to know Silver! Their team is small but very talented, I look up to them a lot.

thepianodanon Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?

Thanks for the reference! Yep, part of why I made this post is to see how I can avoid the innerHTML attribute. Do you think Obsidian's use of dompurify is closely related to their choice of going vanilla?

thepianodanon Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you! :)