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Ask HN: How do you dive into a new framework/project?

1 points by falloutx ↗ HN
Last couple of weeks, I have been trying to learn Vue.js from docs and guides with some amount of scratch-pad code. I am not a very experienced programmer, but most of the times I have written a lot of vanilla javascript, trying not to introduce unnecessary dependencies into the project.

So How do you start investigating into a new framework/project? How do you probe its internal mechanisms and overall architecture?

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mickduprez
Personally, I'd stick with the vanilla js and perhaps use jquery as it solves a lot of headaches with different browsers.

You can waste a lot of time just learning frameworks that can be here one year and gone the next and you may only use 20% of what they offer. You will learn more from building apps yourself and with more experience, you will start building your own js library for common tasks. Build libraries, not frameworks :)

Get used to building your own framework from your libraries each project as each project is different. You will get good at it as it is like doing a 'kata' every job and your native js skills will become very good, good to the point that when you have to work on a project using a framework you should have enough base experience to work it out.

Also, look into Modules, they are great building blocks for library code. cheers.