Frameworks and libraries
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:status: draft
:date: 1970-01-01T00:00:00
:category: computer
:tags: firefoxOS, javascript, webapps, brick, framework, libraries, import, ES6


While reading the discussion_ “Why I hate frameworks” I think
I’ve seen The Light™. I have finally recognized what is my
biggest problem with the current style of the Web development
(and consequently Firefox OS development). It is all about
frameworks.

Where do I see the distinction between frameworks and libraries?
What I really want to do is to write program in whatever style
and structure I want. Only that would be too much work to write
everything myself (and in some cases, e.g., where numerical
stability is concerned, I would need to study one or more
universities to be able to write it), so I am glad that I can
call on some libraries to help via their exactly defined APIs
(and stable! I look at you, NodeJS & co.). However, still, I
decide about the structure of the program and its whole design.
Frameworks come from the other universe, the one of Microsoft
Visual Basic and similar attempts, where the framework does
everything and less-than-professional programmer just fills-in
details in some text boxes (if available). It comes from the
similar universe as whole ideal of CASE, RAD tools, UML,
complicated IDEs (who are mostly ancestors of the Visual Basic
idea anyway), etc.

Crazy thing about the mobile development is that there are almost
no libraries and everybody tries to writes their own version of
framework.

Or there are ... NPM.

Even https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/ECMA
Script_6_support_in_Mozilla admits no support for libraries in
the current development of Firefox (and Mozilla is traditionally
ahead with the development of JavaScript)

Perhaps there is a hope in Web Components, but I don't believe it much
... in the end what we are getting is https://github.com/mozbrick/brick
again. It seems that all we get from Web Components is yet another framework, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Components (ReactJS? Polymer?)

This doesn't mean I don’t want examples.

.. _discussion:
    http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.219431

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.290075.32