Why developers avoid building directly on the web platform
What happened
On October 4, Hacker News front-paged a reflection on why developers avoid "using the platform." The author, a longtime platform advocate, points to browsers lagging behind libraries like jQuery, developers' familiarity with npm and React components, and platform docs once scattered across many places as reasons platform skepticism spread. Drawing on work on PouchDB and IndexedDB, the author says rolling your own is often more fun and easier to understand, and treats it as a key way to learn the web platform.
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- Hacker News front pageWhy don't more developers "use the platform"?
长期主张“使用平台”的开发者反思：浏览器曾长期落后于 jQuery 等库，加上开发者对 npm 与 React 组件更熟悉、平台文档曾散落各处，导致“平台怀疑论”流行。作者以自己参与 PouchDB、IndexedDB 等经历说明，亲手造轮子往往更有趣、更易理解，也是学习 Web 平台的重要途径。
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