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Ask HN: What's the state of the classic JavaScript stack?

7 points by lukaszkups ↗ HN
I was wondering, how many companies still use classic `before-ES6` style of developing apps, using e.g. just some backend technology with js/jQuery stack on the frontend (no frameworks such as angular/react/backbone/ember used)?

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nness
Anecdotally, from my own experiences, probably nearly all of them. Across banking, across telecommunications, every industry I've worked with are predominately if not entirely disinterested.

Unless they have a strong internal technical team that understands the fit and benefit of suck stacks, most of these things are determined by third-party vendors\contractors. If you're beholden to contractors to maintain your services, you might be shy of picking something too new. Contractors can add a decent maintenance surcharge if they're maintaining something React\Angular based, for example, and its just not worth the risk.

By no means true for all everyone though. I've seen one or two different banks and superannuation providers pick up Angular for customer-facing financial calculators. There's certainly room to do the work broadly in industry if the fit is suitable.

lukaszkups
thanks! I was interested in 'technical/engineering' or 'software house' type of companies - I think now everyone bet on currently hyped frameworks, and not go 'classic' or programming with pure javascript.
stephenr
This is the approach basically all of my client projects take.
lukaszkups
Are You a freelancer? Or working at some company?
stephenr
I'm basically a freelancer at the moment, but it was a similar story when I worked for a dev shop too.

The last few clients have all been startups who brought me in for specific projects due to lack of experience/hands/etc.

SHOwnsYou
I work in ecommerce. Enterprise lite sort of work. We have SLAs in place that require browser compatibilities. The tech stack tends to stay rather basic. jQuery is about as advanced as we get.