The current fad of quasi declarative web components looks like early Ext to me, and I think everyone knows how that turned out.
I really wish we took it back to a document approach. True REST, everywhere! That's new and novel. Frameworks that build in behaviors with static html - that's just a poor mans gui toolkit. I suppose the web will have go through the task of figuring out its just another in a long line of mistakes. It's like people want to rebuild xslt but badly.
I've also used Ext and FB React certainly reminds me of it. The biggest problem with ExtJS is that it wanted to be my class system, my service layer, my UI, my CSS, my everything. The APIs were convoluted. Then they switched to MVC when that was cool, but it was kind of a kludge.
Surprisingly, Angular seems to get functional modularity. Directives and filters are easily sharable, very good examples of modular components that can just be simple functions. The other part I really like in Angular is that a model is just data. Got an array? Sure, that can be a model.
I keep waiting for the point where I feel like those dirty Angular devs tricked me into using their framework, but it hasn't happened.
+1. You phrased a lot of exactly how I feel about AngularJS. I went through the React tutorial in order to compare the resulting code to AngularJS side by side. I'm holding back my thoughts until I have a chance to learn more about it, but in the mean time, a comparison of the code required to make the same app is a good start.
While SenchaTouch is definetly the best for mobile web-apps, Their framework is definetly too heavy, and becomes less and less practical espcially without their IDE. AngularJS has a better take on the problem indeed.
I really wish we took it back to a document approach. True REST, everywhere! That's new and novel. Frameworks that build in behaviors with static html - that's just a poor mans gui toolkit. I suppose the web will have go through the task of figuring out its just another in a long line of mistakes. It's like people want to rebuild xslt but badly.