Front-end: List a different framework we could use, and three reasons for and against

[RichardLitt]

You cannot use: Angular, React, Choo, Vue.js, or vanillaJS. I'd like each of you to write a different front-end framework.

[RichardLitt]

Can we have the source for this? It looks a bit old - the suggestion to hold off for 2.0 makes me think it is not up to date.

[RichardLitt]

Angular is mentioned in #14. Can we list a different resource? :)

[RichardLitt]

Two years is a long time in development. I would consider this out of date. Can you find something from the past six months?

[Jojokats]

I would select Ember.js

• It's a framework that optimizes the productivity of small teams and highly skilled individual developers. The focus on conventions over configuration provides an excellent starting point for new developers and organizations that maintain large projects over a long time. If you’re looking for a reliable framework for a long-term project, Ember is an excellent choice.

Who should use Ember?

• Ember makes a great choice for writing web apps. Many ambitious apps are built using the framework. It has been particularly well received by the Ruby community.
• Ember is also the best solution for those who buy into the all-tools-included framework approach. Often we waste time discovering, researching, and gluing together libraries that don’t mesh well. Ember makes so many decisions for you, which provides surprising value. There are pros and cons to both approaches, but those who want everything to just work well together will love Ember!

Have a look: Emberjs

Cons

• A lot of ember addons are ports of existing jQuery libraries and only few a really written from scratch, but if they are, they are really great.
• Very steep learning curve. Better learn javascript at first, then start learning Ember which may take some time
• Core team is very slow in their feature development and last several versions of Ember were mostly minor releases that mostly brought nothing new.

[vlillies]

Electron: Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Pro's

• Native desktop apps! I don't know why we need this but still cool!
• Compatible with IOS, Windows and Linux.
• Includes all of node JS built in modules.
• Many popular softwares run on Electron including Slack and wordpess.com.

Con's

• Bloated and large files even for simple web apps.
• Not truly native (performance issues, some users report a poor user experience)
• Probably not the most logical choice for a web app.

Electron Intro Video 4 minutes

[HanieJ]

Poof. I misread the title! I hope this would be right ~.~

POLYMER:

• Polymer believes in leveraging the browsers “Native” technologies rather than relying on some increasingly complex custom JavaScript libraries.
• Polymer web development is always about creating only elements.
• The polymer provides the ability to compose enclosed JS, CSS, and HTML as Custom elements.
• Polymer elements provide templating and bi-directional data binding. It also provides new functionality such as Shadow DOM which enables the encapsulation of CSS.
• Quick: The Polymer is a new library which is three times faster on Chrome, four times faster on Safari. Also, it is ready to be used in production applications and believed to be easier for developers to produce feature-rich applications and websites.

CONS:

• It is not entirely clear that how to organize larger applications.
• Dependency errors and pointing to a different version of dependencies.
• Downloading of entire library and Polyfills.
• Lack of server side rendering.

[RichardLitt]

Ember

Very steep learning curve. Better learn javascript at first, then start learning Ember which may take some time Core team is very slow in their feature development and last several versions of Ember were mostly minor releases that mostly brought nothing new.

These are big issues.

There are pros and cons to both approaches, but those who want everything to just work well together will love Ember!

This sounds like marketing material :(. I'm not sure any of the pros listed there are really true or helpful. Why is it dependable, for instance? Also, in software, "everything just works well" has never been the case, in my experience, sadly. Maybe I'm wrong!

Electron

Would be super fun! But out of scope for this project.

Polymer

This would also be super fun! But "It is not entirely clear that how to organize larger applications." is a big enough issue for me to steer away from this for now.