EU countries are banning Google already. Never say never

No, that's not the case.

Judiciaries in multiple EU member states have judged Google to be breaching EU regulations (in regards to Google Analytics). That is not a ban; Google is welcome to do business in the EU if they observe EU laws and regulations.

Hey dude, get into construction as a hobby and build a DIY, permitted home addition or ADU. I think you will find fulfillment there.

Bro I’m still rockin’ jQuery. I did some projects using React, then stepped back for a bit and asked why, then never used it again.

Even jQuery doesn't work on Sciter.

Nothing wrong with jQuery if it suits your use case! Sometimes mutating the DOM directly is simpler and more maintainable.

IMO React is a response to a problem that not all websites have (complex state-dependent nested UIs). At a certain level of complexity it's worth it, at another level it's necessary, beyond that it's insufficient... but below that it can totally be unnecessary and more pain than it's worth :)

Go with what works for you and your team!

I wonder if this new element is compatible with a blind person’s screen reader. Any input?

I use Bootstrap components. I’ll use Bootstrap utility classes (essentially what TailwindCSS is) for some one-off margin bottom (“mb-3”). Using TailwindCSS alone seems bad to me. Using TailwindCSS is pointless when using Bootstrap (Bootstrap Utilities)

Thanks for the advice. I had an internship at medium-sized manufacturer in California, above SF a bit. Was really cool to be next to a bunch of CNC machines while writing some code. I think I’ll try to find that vibe again sometime.

How close to Sebastopol?

I went to visit out there and kinda dig the area.

Very

The purpose of a business is to generate profit. Giving out goodwill raises goes against this fundamental purpose unless you need to retain SF tech talent to maintain the business. Businesses would continue to minimize their expenses, the largest of which is generally Human Resources. I disagree with your perspective.

China doesn’t seem to have a problem.

Have any of you tried .NET?

ASP.NET is great but it definitely comes under the same banner of 'too many choices needed' compared to Rails.

e.g.

Framework - Which .NET framework do you use (Core/LTS)? Do you use MVC, Razor Pages, Web API and Blazor (Server or WebAssembly) or Web API and an alternative JavaScript/TypeScript based frmaework?. Do you use JSON/XML/SOAP or gRPC? How do you serialize your JSON (NewtonSoft.JSON or System.Text.JSON)?

Database - Do you use Dapper, Entity Framework or just utilize a SQLConnection object manually (And then do you use System.Data.SqlClient or Microsoft.Data.SqlClient)? Which database driver do you you use?

Authentication - Do you implement this manually? Do you use something like Identity Framework? Do you use a third party provider like Azure AD(B2C), Auth0 etc. etc.? Do you use header based authentication, JWT's etc. etc?

Jobs - Do you create a separate service project or Windows Service? Do you use HangFire or Quartz?

Email delivery - How do you render your templates? Do you send via SMTP manually or do you use a third party API like Mailgun/Sendgrid etc. etc.

Folder structure - completely up to you, no real standards there.

Testing - Do you use XUnit, NUnit, MSTest, SpecFlow?

> Which .NET framework do you use (Core/LTS)?

There is no "Core" anymore: LTS is now .NET 6. If you are building webpages, the "Legacy" .NET Framework 4.x is no longer relevant in any way (unless you are unlucky enough to have legacy apps with no drive/budget for cleaning up tech debt, and I'm sorry on your behalf). The last LTS "Core" version (.NET Core 3.1) is out of support in December and the upgrade path is simply .NET 6. There's only one choice right now and it is .NET 6. (It'll complicate a bit with .NET 7 in a few months, but only in the alternating LTS/"current" versions way of things like NodeJS, nothing like the Core/Framework confusion of the past few years.)

> MVC, Razor Pages, Web API and Blazor

MVC and Web API merged many moons ago, it's not really a choice between them, they use the same APIs and are built the same way way today.

(Editorializing: Razor Pages is making many of the same mistakes of ASP Classic or PHP/ColdFusion over again, and I don't see it as a great choice personally. Blazor is making similar mistakes to both Razor Pages and Silverlight, and really feels like ASP Classic 2.0. I understand its appeal to some development teams, but wow does it seem like a clunker from my vantage point.)

This comment is ridiculous. You've shifted this from "too many options for everything" to "any options at all". Also, how are these things framework specific? The API vs templates argument also applies for Rails. Choosing an authentication method also applies to Rails. Choosing rendered emails via SMTP vs Sendgrid - also applies to Rails. And so on. You can't mix business requirements with "tooling choices".

Rails has a templating system for generating emails (standard HTML/ERB files). If you're running an ASP.NET Web API (not MVC) the best way of doing that I've found is via RazorLight which you have to set up manually - https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight

For authentication, with Rails the standard is pretty much Devise or Omniauth (or both) - does everything for you. I've never found anything for ASP like Devise which gives you an entire registration/login system with all the required views/models/migrations in a couple commands.

> I've never found anything for ASP like Devise which gives you an entire registration/login system with all the required views/models/migrations in a couple commands.

??????????????????????????????????????????? You know that this is built-in, right?

https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/security/authenticati... https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/security/authenticati...

also the same choices apply to rails.

I mentioned Identity in my first comment. I've never found it as simple as Devise though - especially in an API only setting.

With Devise there's a third-party Gem you can use called devise_token_auth which deals with everything automatically.

https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth

Yeah but this falls into similar territory.

Do you choose ASP.NET MVC? ASP.NET Razor Pages? Blazor? ASP.NET Web API + Angular/React/etc?

I think this article is basically saying "stick to the boring stuff that does what you need out of the box". What is that in .NET land though?

Razor pages, that id the boring stuff

Have any of you tried JEE? ;)

I love it!