Hi Fam
This was such an interesting read.
javascript.plainenglish.io
The moment of clarity came last year while working on a complex dashboard application. My team had spent six weeks building a sophisticated data filtering system with React, Redux, Formik, and a dozen other dependencies. The bundle size was creeping toward 1MB (minified!). Performance was acceptable but not great. The codebase had grown so complex that onboarding new developers took days. Then our main competitor shipped essentially the same feature. When I investigated their implementation out of professional curiosity, I discovered they’d built it with vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and a sprinkle of Alpine.js. Their solution was less than 30KB, noticeably faster, and — here’s the kicker — took a single developer just six days to build.
That’s when I started questioning everything.
Why BANano?
The beauty about BANAno is that it produces javascript code from b4x. Which means you can build and optimise your app the best way you see fit and it will do exactly as you want it. The thing about some of these web frameworks is that they compile everything back to javascript, irrespective of how complex they are and the learning curve you need to understake in the process. The arguement then is, why not just use the real deal in the first place?
Im not saying there are no advantages of using web frameworks, there are, but the crux comes to these eventual discoveries where people "start to question everything".
Enjoy your coding or AI coding...
This was such an interesting read.
Why I’m Never Using React Again (After Building 30+ Production Apps)
“What? You’re not using React? But… everyone uses React.”
javascript.plainenglish.io
The moment of clarity came last year while working on a complex dashboard application. My team had spent six weeks building a sophisticated data filtering system with React, Redux, Formik, and a dozen other dependencies. The bundle size was creeping toward 1MB (minified!). Performance was acceptable but not great. The codebase had grown so complex that onboarding new developers took days. Then our main competitor shipped essentially the same feature. When I investigated their implementation out of professional curiosity, I discovered they’d built it with vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and a sprinkle of Alpine.js. Their solution was less than 30KB, noticeably faster, and — here’s the kicker — took a single developer just six days to build.
That’s when I started questioning everything.
Why BANano?
The beauty about BANAno is that it produces javascript code from b4x. Which means you can build and optimise your app the best way you see fit and it will do exactly as you want it. The thing about some of these web frameworks is that they compile everything back to javascript, irrespective of how complex they are and the learning curve you need to understake in the process. The arguement then is, why not just use the real deal in the first place?
Im not saying there are no advantages of using web frameworks, there are, but the crux comes to these eventual discoveries where people "start to question everything".
Enjoy your coding or AI coding...
