JavaScript Frameworks for Modern Web Development: The Essential Frameworks, Libraries, and Tools to Learn Right Now

© Sufyan bin Uzayr, Nicholas Cloud, Tim Ambler 2019

S. bin Uzayr et al.JavaScript Frameworks for Modern Web Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4995-6_1

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Sufyan bin Uzayr¹ , Nicholas Cloud² and Tim Ambler³

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Al Manama, United Arab Emirates

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Florissant, MO, USA

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Nashville, TN, USA

 

I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t like walking or carrying things.

—Lech Walesa, former president of Poland

In his book Programming Perl, Larry Wall (the well-known creator of the language) puts forth the idea that all successful programmers share three important characteristics: laziness, impatience, and hubris. At first glance, these traits all sound quite negative, but dig a little deeper, ...