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Seanzor
Mar 22, 2013
I'm a Product Manager (I'm sorry). At my shop, we had a problem with developers going overboard with incredibly basic features (apparently a team of five in-house web app Devs spent the better part of a year building an address book, with most of the effort spent on UI stuff), and so we made a strategic decision to adopt a framework so straightforward that a Product Manager could use it.

When I joined the team, the decision had already been made. Shortly after joining, and learning JS on the job (after like one year of self-education in coding Python via Udacity, prior to joining the team) I built a functional UI prototype (using their Architect IDE) for what would eventually become our flagship feature. The rationale: if it's too hard for an idiot Product Manager implement, it's too complex to prioritize for our team.

It's been a nightmare for our Dev team to hire people with ExtJS experience (except for the one person who literally used to work at Sencha!), but I have to say - we're delivering a lot faster.


In conclusion: if you need to put horse blinders on your development team: choose ExtJS.

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Seanzor
Mar 22, 2013

Khorne posted:

All of the big frameworks are like this. It's so drat easy to develop with VueJS or Angular after playing with them for 20-40 hours or so. Be wary about seeking plugins/extensions/whatever for them, though.

I'm sure glad we chose the dying framework for which it is impossible to hire experienced developers over Angular, then!

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