Simple Modern JavaScript Using JavaScript Modules and Import Maps
As someone who doesn't use JS frequently but still has to build some things ocasionally with it, it's funny how "Simple Modern Javascript" is a completely different beast each year. Libraries, UI frameworks, build systems, preprocessing tools, the JS community seems to have a knack for rebuilding everything from the ground up with almost zero backward compatibility with a frequency I haven't seen anywhere. For example, in this post already I see quite a lot of things that completely break how things were done in other projects or other frameworks. All for what? I don't see any improvements that would make such a break worthy.<p>Another example, I recently had to upgrade a Vue 2 application to Vue 3, because Vue 2 is going EOL this year. Well, apparently that means I also had to change the build system from Webpack to Vite, the test library also was a "recommended change", the state store library was different and wasn't backwards compatible, and half the vue plugins required an update or a replacement for a Vue 3 compatible alternative.<p>I have not seen this pace in other languages/environments. For example, in Python, there are different "build" systems (old setuptools, pip, poetry...) and yet they are all compatible. In C/C++ I still haven't heard of a framework that forces you to upgrade your build system when they push a new version.