• kewjo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    javascript but more for philosophical reasons. when projects use typescript they always get focused on writing more scripts rather than optimizing HTML/CSS. Too many times I’ve seen overly complex scripts trying to solve what a properly arranged div and css tag have already solved.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been dealing with this at my job because a layout library was deprecated and is used throughout our codebase instead of proper css. Came to learn that my whole team doesn’t like/know css, so they used this library that used angular directives in the html instead. We had multiple giant scripts for arranging elements in a grid that changed based on screen width