A Plethora of Choice As I try settle down on JavaScript web app tools, libraries, frameworks and template engines, one thing I’m learning is that the frameworks that shield you from the complexities of knowing a lot about the functionality they provide often don’t really shield you from having to learn those things anyway…

or… Vue.js and Feathers.js FTW! Update: Years later now, I’ve posted a 2020 update on my preferred stacks for both back-end and web application development: here. Previously I wrote about how I had settled down with Ember.js and Hapi.js in my battle with JavaScript Framework Fatigue. (Or so I thought…

Update for 2020: It was perhaps optimistic naivety that allowed this posting; since it was written in 2016 I have moved on” from 3 of the 4 tools in the MECH name. The only survivor being Cordova for mobile, mostly because I haven’t done much with mobile to influence that…

This is not a review. It’s a plea to recognize the time constraints of software developers. I have taken a couple of online courses in the past, and found them mostly horrible or bland and did not really learn from them, until one day I tried CodeSchool and the “Shaping…