[kwlug-disc] Which JavaScript should I learn?

[Joan Currie]

I am doing Angular2 (as the frontend) with Ruby on Rails as the backend.

Cheers,
Joan.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:12 AM, William Park via kwlug-disc
> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a general question about JavaScript.  I want to develop/propose
> > "web app" hosted from embedded Linux board.  So,
> >     - you go to its webpage,
> >     - click "web app",
> >     - it will serve out JavaScript to browser client, and
> >     - the app will be running on the browser.
> >
> > Which Javascript should I learn?
> >
> > I mean, there are Meteor, Angular, React, Ember, Vue, etc.  Some are
> > described as "framework", and others described as "library".  Then,
> > there is Web Assembly I've been reading about recently.  It's difficult
> > to figure out what's what.
>
> Oh! You mean which Javascript _Framework_ should you learn.
>
> I can only quote what is happening in the Drupal world, from observing.
> I don't do front end development, so no first hand experience.
>
> It all started with Angular, which was developed by Google.
> Ember made some headway after that.
> React seemed like a good solution, but Facebook had a patent clause that
> turned people off. They later removed that clause, so no longer a concern.
>
> Seems that React has all the momentum now, and Drupal will adopt React
> as its JS framework.
>
> One thing that is appealing is React Native, which allows you to develop
> cross
> platform mobile applications using the same code base (i.e. no more iOS
> code
> base and a separate Android code base
>
>
> --
> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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