Taking JavaScript More Seriously
As I migrated from basic HTML to JSPs and finally complex Server-Side Java, I became less and less respectful of client-side languages, and most of my colleagues were pretty much in lockstep with me. While working in the view layer, adding JavaScript was a tedious necessity, and most programmers I worked with built well-made, but structural, scripts to handle the needs of the page. They knew what they wanted it to accomplish and they just wrote it to “do that thing”. It “wasn’t worth” digging deep into it, because it is just “throw away” code that the view used; not really worthy of Server-Side Programmers’ attention. Continue reading
As the Dude Abides... 