That's wild, never really looked into it, reminds me how a C programmer thinks. I'm mostly backend but get involved with frontend every now and then. Tried to avoid Angular and React but now trying to teach myself Angular. AngularJS was nice. Angular sucks, very complicated for doing the same things I can do with vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, but that's what companies seem to be hiring for.

I've been a solo dev as well. But unless you're going to live forever, the code should be maintainable by someone else. You can be a solo dev that's impossible to ever work with, or you can maintain good practices so that other people can play along as well.

… is that a good example?

… upvote/downvotes are does by fetching an "image", i.e., it does a GET request with side-effects! … also seems like a trivial CSRF vuln, too…

hn would benefit from the ael library