Google declaring end of support is enough to make us have to move. Banks are kinda picky about security updates.
We’ve had a bunch of long-standing state management bugs and performance issues too ($watches, $watches everywhere, nor any prop’s in sync) that we built a lot of cruft around trying to fix, mostly due to two-way binding and our weird use case. Some were unfixable due to the framework and others due to bad early decisions. But This Time!!
It will definitely be fun to rewrite. The app is so much like a web-based dumb terminal that a view-layer library like React was probably always a better fit for us, had we known about it when we started the project. Plus the JS ecosystem is a lot nicer now: arg destructuring and VS Code’s intellisense thanks to es6 imports are both big productivity wins. Also, not having to maintain a gulpfile is its own blessing.
We’ve had a bunch of long-standing state management bugs and performance issues too ($watches, $watches everywhere, nor any prop’s in sync) that we built a lot of cruft around trying to fix, mostly due to two-way binding and our weird use case. Some were unfixable due to the framework and others due to bad early decisions. But This Time!!
It will definitely be fun to rewrite. The app is so much like a web-based dumb terminal that a view-layer library like React was probably always a better fit for us, had we known about it when we started the project. Plus the JS ecosystem is a lot nicer now: arg destructuring and VS Code’s intellisense thanks to es6 imports are both big productivity wins. Also, not having to maintain a gulpfile is its own blessing.