I don’t think there is anything wrong with building your own ‘framework’. I feel like there is a lot of good experience gained, and learning to be had from taking this approach. Especially for less experienced devs.
It forces you to brush up on fundamentals, fill knowledge gaps, and practice/ learn design patterns. Also the end result is there is no ‘magic’, you know everything that is happening because you implemented it yourself.
Frameworks are great, but I don’t like reaching for them when I start new toy projects, I want to use it as an opportunity to improve my core JS skills.
I agree. I'm stubborn to take on frameworks as I have a vision and want to code it now; rather than learn and understand the framework to do what I want to create which by then my idea has deflated.
The company I am currently contracting for use Ansible. I've never used it prior and I get where the hype is but to me the whole system is just a mess. Asking the younger developers on "why isn't this working" feels quite embarrassing.
Five different folders, within more folders and then more folders on that; then you've got YAML which if you have one wrong space spews errors. I'm not dissing any of it as when it works when it works they do have their reasons for existence but it just feels so convoluted to do something you could write simply in bash.
Maybe I'm just a cynical SysAdmin throwing "get off my lawn" while wanting to see the world burn. But the era where I am from, where the internet was truly developmental; where if you wanted a CMS you built it from scratch. If you wanted a forum, you built it from scratch is kind of almost deleted from internet history.
Wordpress came a long and it ended all that, though I suppose it had to happen if you wanted more features from the users on the internet. It was a niche in the early 00's to have your own website but now my 70 year-old mother administrates her own website.
No disrespect, but I think you proved @vbezhenar's point. The right way to structure the code is with a framework of some kind, even if it's homegrown.
If there is anything I am trying to prove it is that you don't need complicated frameworks like Angular or React. Those frameworks have gotten too complex for what they do.
