My first net web page (tragically unavailable within the Wayback Machine) was actually a single, giant, sprawling index.html file on the root of my listing. I assumed I used to be tremendous cool as a result of I had these skinny, broad, rainbow GIF information that separated the sections of my web page, divided into Hobbies, Favourite Films, and, in fact, the Underneath Development part. And let’s not overlook the blinking textual content!
Coding yesterday
Then JavaScript and CSS got here alongside, and we have been off to the races. The early days of writing JavaScript have been form of like knitting with oven mitts on. It wasn’t till jQuery got here alongside that at the least some semblance of order got here to net growth. jQuery gave you a modicum of management over the browser’s Doc Object Mannequin (DOM). However in fact each browser had a barely completely different method of coping with the DOM.
jQuery made the UI straightforward, however creating purposes and structuring modules and all that software program engineering stuff was difficult. Fairly quickly everybody was releasing a JavaScript framework for net growth. There was Spine, Knockout, Meteor, Ember, and AngularJS. These have been simply those that gained a following. Imagine me, there have been 1,000,000 of them. (There are nonetheless a lot.)
