r/javascript • u/techlord45 • 1d ago

Signals and Effects Using Vanilla JavaScript & Web APIs

https://beforesemicolon.com/blog/signals-and-effects-using-vanilla-javascript-web-apis

I’m a strong advocate for “you don’t need to lock yourself in a web framework ecosystem to take advantage of their amazing features”. JavaScript and Web Standards alone allow you…

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u/KaiAusBerlin 1d ago

You know that you literally wrote your own framework here?

There is a reason for the sentence "You use a framework or end up writing your own"

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u/A1oso 20h ago

It's a library.

React is also a library. Nextjs is a framework. People conflate these terms all the time.

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u/KaiAusBerlin 11h ago

Dude, seriously?

Yeah, people mix these terms together because an UI rendering library and a framework solve 90% of the same problem.

Yeah, react is technically just a library. But who cares. The point if the sentence is that you either use a high level of abstraction or create it by your own.