Last I used JS was in 2012 and my experience was rather limited. I basically was a booststrap idiot who didn't know much about HTML/CSS or any JS framework.
I took a tutorial on Angular and spent some time learning it, back in the days when it was just AngularJS :)
Now out of curiosity (because I can obviously assign this to one of my UI engineers, but I want to give it a shot) and need I have to write a small Admin panel which basically is a front end for RESTful APIs.
What would be your recommendations on how should I proceed? I understand the basics of how and why of JS, although I haven't written it in quite some time.
Vishwa Bhat
Technology Enthusiast
If you're not concerned with building just a basic single or couple of html pages based Admin panel, either use jQuery or Templating as nowadays server side MVC frameworks comes along with UI templating, that should serve the purpose.
If you want to build Single Page Applications to handle complex pages ,reusable modules etc then you'll have to use one of the SPA frameworks like Angular 5, React, Vue etc. I'd recommend Vue as it's very simple & easy to get started with.
I'd recommend you to read below article.Although it's old but very funny. You'll get a gist of JS ecosystem which is being evolved, Don't miss it.
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Cheers!