Comment by fkyoureadthedoc 3 days ago
Alpine is great for your blog, but it's not even a little bit tempting for real world professional projects. Looking back at every project I've worked on there's no shot I would ever select Alpine for any of them.
These type of condescending comments really scream "I'm not even a web developer but here's my strong opinion as someone who only makes toy front ends to demo my data work"
> Back in the day we did plenty of "real world professional projects" with jQuery.
I was there, it sucked
Also 0 chance. Well maybe under some specific unrealistic constraints.
But I am a fan of alternative approaches to the typical stuff just for the fun and learning aspect of it. I'd never come on here and be like "oh well that's cute, but it's useless, why can't we just x".
For example I think Imba is pretty cool and I've used it for a couple throwaway personal projects just to give a spin, but I'd not use it at work.
Back in the day we did plenty of "real world professional projects" with jQuery.
I don't see why you couldn't with Alpine.
Yeah at some point you may need a more sophisticated solution but plenty of projects don't need React. This very forum you're using is just a very simple vanilla js file.