nodejs tips and tricks

I've played around with Angular, React, and Vue before, and had first impressions of all of them. After my initial review of all three, I liked Vue the best, but I've decided that I must learn and have experience/skills with React due to the amount of jobs that seem to be available. Vue might be very popular amongst Laravel hipsters, but that really means nothing to me. The one thing that I really hated about React though is the initial setup. I simply do not like trusting that a multitude of files being pulled in by a package manager is the best way. This evening I finally found an install procedure that suits me a little better:

https://www.valentinog.com/blog/react-webpack-babel/

... and with that hurdle cleared, I had a fun night of going through tutorials and feeling way more comfortable with React. I'm not really in love with the way props have to be passed down and up through components, but maybe Redux solves that annoyance. I plan to play with Redux tomorrow.

Thank you for your reply skunkbad. Sorry for my ignorance, but could you clarify what you mean by Angular, react and vue. I see these as front end frameworks whereas nodejs is mainly backend stuff.

I too am I bit fussy about the way nodejs acquires modules or middleware, actually this was one reason why I always disliked fragmented frameworks where you are assumed to acquire different modules via composer. I guess this is just how nodejs operates, so you are at the mercy of the repo author I guess.

Additionally, I know this might be a bit old school, but I feel quite content with jquery, and a few additional plugins for all my front end work. I didn't fancy investing the time to learn angular etc but I understand it is hot on the skills requirements these days.

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