eureka

> Make a convincing argument that a different design pattern is better. Simple Model-View-Controller pattern works well for JavaScript, just as it does for ASP.NET Core, JSP and JSF, Ruby on Rails, Django and so on. Want proof? Browse this code: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/tree/master/webapp/Clie... This is the application: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka

If a web-based code search engine is what you need here's one: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/

Got it thanks for the context. I've read the web app and it seems to me it is just https://backbonejs.org/ re-written in Typescript and allows JSX. I'm very certain Typescript and JSX will have improved the DX for Backbone like apps, but it doesn't address all of the other issues that teams had with Backbone. e.g. Cyclical event propagation, state stored in the DOM (i.e. appendChild is error prone in large multi-person code bases), etc. FWIW, the reason this works for eureka is highlighted best on this page: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/graphs/contributors there is only a single author!

> a literal 5-20x productivity boost Not really. See a better way here: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka

Very thin frameworks can avoid the complexities of React and hooks and useEffect and whatnot. Here's an app written with a 500-line "framework", notice how readable and maintainable it is: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka

I'm not seeing React being used, though, just TSX/JSX? All the view and state updating is being done manually, but it looks fairly well-organised. There are small optimisations like debouncing onInput with a timeout (avoiding rapid re-rendering/reacting to every character typed): https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/blob/master/webapp/Clie... Is this really much more complicated to implement than the equivalent implementation in React? (It's probably a bit more responsive, at least.)

https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/blob/master/webapp/Clie... I love how you do React. I mean, what's more react-y than blanking the page then appending HTML? I'm gonna call that Rejqueryact, because it's jQuery inside React.

None of that is true in React hooks. The negative sentiment towards hooks that you see here is because it is weird and complicated. Want to see how much simpler code can get when you code without React or any such fat frameworks? Take a look: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/tree/master/webapp/Clie... You just need to know JavaScript, HTML and CSS, not much else. The code is simple, and yet maintainable. No need for hooks, useEffect, useState, useMemo and all that crap.