We're using Tomcat (it could be Jetty, I'm killing one by one all the .jsp I can get my hands on :-)) and I'm using straight Javascript. I've looked at all the various alternatives but they are not worth the trouble to me. I'm also using underscore.js to make my life a bit easier (come on, 'for' loops? What year is this, 1998?).
-- Cédric On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:50 AM, phil swenson <[email protected]>wrote: > Interesting, Cédric. Very strong endorsement. > > Are you coding in plain javascript or using Coffescrit/Dart/something else? > > What is the server side you are developing against? Java/node.js/? > > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> And it has come to that - forced into JS development ! Shame ! :-p > >> > >> But I've got to admit jquery allows you to pull off tricks that would be > >> very difficult server side. so there's no escaping it any more. ;-) > > > > > > Actually, the recent crop of binding frameworks (e.g. EmberJS initially > and > > more recently, AngularJS) has been dramatically shrinking the amount of > > jQuery I use these days to the point that it's almost a code smell when I > > see one. jQuery is still very useful but be aware that you should only > ever > > do graphical stuff with it (e.g. animations) and never use it to query > > values (e.g. calling .val() on a DOM element). > > > > One of the many great things about AngularJS is the very clear line it > draws > > in your conceptual model: any jQuery directive in your controller code is > > wrong and should be moved out. jQuery was a great advancement in making > > Javascript and single page applications more tractable, but I feel that > > Javascript development has reached a brand new level of maturity with > > AngularJS. If anything, you should spend more time learning this than > jQuery > > (which is pretty trivial in itself). > > > > -- > > Cédric > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
