Must view videos from Goto Conference - You Really Don't need all that Javascript.

[Nitin Bhide]

1. GOTO 2020 • You Really Don't Need All That JavaScript, I Promise
   
   I really hate AngularJS/npm/nodejs.  In my opinion it goes against all the good software engineering practices that we learned during 90s/early 2000 (e.g. debugging is difficult, very easy to create circular dependencies in code,  building and deploying your application is difficult, how you deploy locally and how you deploy on production are significantly different, list goes on and on).  
   
   And now I suspcious of React/VueJS etc. I prefered simple HTML pages with very little javascript instead of SPA (Single Page Webapp) .Unfortunately most of the developers I talked to were defending insanity of AngularJS. Mostly the argument was "everyone is using it".  Very few people could really explain what business and technology , productivity benefit they got by using "shiny technology" like Angular.
   
   Remember Google/Amazon work at very diffent scale. What is appropriate for Google (like AngularJS) may not be appropriate for you.
   
   Today I found a talk by Stuart Langridge and I realized that there are people who are thinking like me.
   
   
2. GOTO 2018 • Old Is the New New
   Another amazing talk. Kevlin Henney looks at history of various concepts and how some ideas keep repeating. For example, Gargable collection was there in Algol 68 (in 1968)  while we think GC is a new ideas introduced by Java.
   
   

I hope you will enjoy these.

Regards,

Nitin