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s/Javascript/React (e.g. debugging works fine with stimulus/coffeescript for instance)

• yebyen 7y ago
  You're not wrong, as far as I can tell. I'm a rails dev who has some godawful vanilla JS and JQuery in my legacy apps, that I maintain to some extent. We've largely avoided the quagmire of component-ized frameworks like React, Vue, keeping our JS footprint as minimal as possible while other teams in our area have moved ahead timidly, doing Vue without TypeScript or any build tools. The one place where I have started moving my ball ahead is by adding Stimulus. It coaxes me toward Object-oriented (or at least Controller-oriented) JavaScript with ES6 classes. It has been a major success story for our small dev group which doesn't have the capacity to go crazy with a new language or framework, after deciding on Ruby+Rails some time ago. We can use it without major upheaval, it works with our legacy apps too without build tools, without much icky feeling, and without even webpack, just plain asset pipeline, while our internal-only application customer base is able to guarantee we are serving pages to a baseline of "current supported version of Chrome" that has given us the guarantee of needed support for ES6 and no concern about legacy browser support. And one problem I also don't have, is any issue with the JS debugging support that is provided natively in Chrome, plain and simply put. I just write a "debugger" statement where it is needed in the code, ensure I have the JS console open when it reaches that line of code, and my debugging environment is roughly as powerful as pry-rails, no problem.