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Stefan Baumgartner
@deadparrot.dev

Web dev friends: What was your "aha!" moment in web dev? What revelation or scenario made you a senior? What made you find out "how the sausage is made" that fundamentally changed your view on web development? (Please boost for reach 🙏)

AapoAlas
@aapoalas.trynova.dev

I'm not really sure if I'm a senior webdev or just a senior annoyance these days, but... Recently it's been the allure and problems around raw DOM APIs: I love me direct access to the DOM, but I can't deny that it's also easy to end up with layout thrashing. A framework's most important aspect is

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AapoAlas
@aapoalas.trynova.dev

controlling reads and writes on the DOM, or phasing them. To me at least. Yet, I'd prefer smaller frameworks, because at the end of the day most things in a UI are quite small. eg. Backbone's directness is nice but its lack of phasing and absolutely lackluster control over property access is bad.

AapoAlas
@aapoalas.trynova.dev

Or maybe rather "lackluster attitude to property storage". Just smash everything into the model and access it using generic get/set methods is a horrible way to create efficient code.

AapoAlas
@aapoalas.trynova.dev

I don't know where I'm going with this, but I guess my "seniority" is just having some clue over the sausage and how ugly it is. And still being able to see beauty in it as well... Maybe? :D