Ask HN: Overwhelmed with learning front-end, how do I proceed?
OK, I know a lot of folks are tired of me talking about it, but if you are interested only in UX functionality and not necessarily in learning the latest trendy tools, I have built a library that gives you a lot of what the other front-end libraries do at a fraction of the complexity:<p><a href="http://intercoolerjs.org" rel="nofollow">http://intercoolerjs.org</a><p>Basically you use HTML attributes to drive AJAX requests, and render your HTML on the server side.  (There are actually very good theoretical reasons for doing this[1][2].)  It is built on top of jQuery and dovetails very nicely with it.<p>There are lots of examples here:<p><a href="http://intercoolerjs.org/examples/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://intercoolerjs.org/examples/index.html</a><p>And, again, if you are looking for simplicity in front end development, while still building a modern web application, I think it's a good option.  There is no tool chain beyond what you currently use for web development.<p>[1] - <a href="http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html" rel="nofollow">http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html</a><p>[2] - <a href="http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.html" rel="nofollow">http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...</a>