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Aren’t you building pyramids with grains of sand if you don’t use a framework? I can’t imagine how much manual work it would take to drop Vue.

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Well you start with grains of sand, then a month in you build your own framework, which is clearly better than anything else out there. A year goes by, new devs start, and everyone hates the monstrosity that has emerged. Such is the software circle of life.

I still prefer that method. With frameworks I'm always worried if it's me or the framework when something goes wrong. You also don't have to worry about build tools or if npm update will suddenly break your application.

I have a personal project that's about 30k lines of jQuery on one page - if you want to see an example of what that looks like:

https://www.superanimo.com/editor

I would be really interested, but it just gives me a page not found...

Is it still 404 for you if you don't mind me asking? From what location?

Over the weekend AWS reported my instance health went to Bad for a bit not sure why.

Western Canada, but I don't think that's the problem. I'm on my phone, and just noticed it looks like it loads, then redirects to /mobile which is where the 404 actually appears. Switch my phone's browser to Desktop mode send to load fine, although a little awkward to use :)

Why do you comment out chunks of code? Aren't you using Git? :-/

Hah - yes I do. The project is just a mess. The main thing that makes this project work is this great scene-graph based animation library:

https://github.com/hyperandroid/CAAT

If it wasn't for that I would have never been able to stitch together a project as difficult as this.

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