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Thanks I have asked another poster to fill me in because maybe I'm too old school and yelling at kids to get off my lawn. I might have to shut up now for a while until I run away and get back up to speed in this arena.

But I have used react, vue, jquery, and my favourite which is just plain old JS and to me this is just generating templates with a different DOM structure and class semantics. IDK it just seems like this is not something I'd want to retrofit but would have to adopt as a standard to see any value long-term over a bunch of projects.

Usually I am more measured in my responses but this time I tried to just say what I am thinking (screw my ignorance) so maybe I can learn a thing or two.

Thanks for responding.

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I'm in the same boat, I still like the plain old vanilla JS I do see the benefits of Typescript and all but I don't know I have been doing JS since I was 10 years old so I guess it's something that comes from my childhood haha. I just love JS in any fashion, it's a love relationship since the beginning and way back then I always saw that there was huge value around JS but never imagined back then that we would get to were we are today, back then Flash was the big deal and it was doing the more advanced functionality in the front-end could never imagined that Shockwave, Flash would all get basically banned due to security. Interesting turn around for JS and the open source nature it has always had since its infancy with the Mozilla Browser.

I started coding BASIC in the late 80s and built websites before CSS and JS was a thing in addition to just coding stuff in whatever language took my fancy to solve whatever whimsical project I had that day, I had a particular affinity for optimising getpixel and putpixel routines in ASM when you could still directly address video memory.

On the one hand this is great because programming is in my bones and I know whatever comes along I'll figure out.

It's also terrible because sometimes something that looks like a rebranded version of what I already know is actually a fantastic new and easier way of doing things, and it's really easy to miss something great.

This just doesn't feel like something great, it just feels like another branded corporate way to structure code that there's dozens of examples of already, it's not an improvement just an alternative, if that makes sense.

I can't send DM's here and I don't know if you'll see an edit, so I wanted to add that I am sorry if I sounded condescending in my other reply, I initially just wanted to make sure you and other readers understand I am not new to the programming game to emphasise my frustration at not being able to understand something so simple as drawing html elements, and prevent assumptions about my ability to comprehend frameworks in general, but on re-reading it sounds like I'm trying to 1-up you, in reality I do find it hard to keep up and I am fearful that things are moving beyond my ability to comprehend. After some other discussions with other posters here this sounds like it might be a cool addition to the ug... component-o-sphere? It'll take me a while to get up to speed.

Thanks for taking the time, and I will try to be better next time.

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