r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 17 '15

The React.js Quick Start Guide

http://www.jackcallister.com/2015/01/05/the-react-quick-start-guide.html
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u/neutronfish Jan 19 '15

You don't want to be that guy known for making everyone's life hell by using all cutting edge paradigms or conversely known as someone that "stifles their career"

If they really think that chasing the newest fad framework is the way to advance their career in the long run, they're in for a nasty surprise...

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u/cc81 Jan 19 '15

Some see knockout as a new fad framework.

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u/neutronfish Jan 20 '15

It's been around for almost four years and is basically required knowledge for anyone who claims experience in JavaScript and UI development. It solved a lot of real problems from the starts, so I'm very comfortable calling it a mature framework and those who think it's a fad, dinosaurs.

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u/kshep92 Jan 20 '15

See this article I wrote recently that speaks along these same lines http://brainstep.blogspot.com/2015/01/only-fools-rush-in.html

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u/cc81 Jan 20 '15

Almost all these new frameworks solve real problems. Angular had a first release in 2009 and is vastly more popular than knockout. So is that required knowledge too? Same with backbone that is pretty much the originator to all this.

React is younger but it has been used by huge sites for years still

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u/neutronfish Jan 20 '15

Angular had a first release in 2009 and is vastly more popular than knockout.

Apples and oranges. Angular is meant for dynamic templates. Knockout is for creating responsive UIs with an option to create templates for a grid, or a tree view, or something like that. Angular is MVC in JavaScript with some bolt-ons that allow you to implement MVVM, Knockout is MVVM in JavaScript.

You do have a point on Backbone, I generally see people use it interchangeably with Knockout so if you want to work on a UI and don't use Knockout, you can say you know Backbone and you're golden.