Selva Ganesh

Front End Developer, Emberist, OSS lover

Hey David,

In the first place, I'd like to thank you for all your works. I've learnt a ton from your blog posts. I've a couple of questions for you

In JS apps, the display logic can either be coupled to the JS code (as in case of React's JSX) or it can reside in a separate file with some templating language (like handlebars.js). Which one do you prefer ? And Why ?
If you were to explore the server-side languages & frameworks, how would you proceed ?

David Walsh

Senior Web Developer, Mozilla

I love JSX -- I hate jumping back and forth between files to see what I'm templating into.
My strategy has always been to take a use case that I'd need and learn the new language using that case. For example, when I first taught myself PHP waaaay back in the day, I created a PHP app to catalog all of my DVDs. I could do basic CRUD, sort by actor or run time, etc. So within a few weeks I learned PHP and MySQL, and I was driven to keep going because I wanted a DVD app! :)

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