I was a little surprised that he author disliked "heavy" things, yet kept reaching for the absolute heaviest tools in their respective categories:
- Rails (just about the heaviest web framework ever made for ruby, despite it's wide appeal)
- Ember (I absolutely love ember, but it is by far the heaviest modern JS framework... I don't include things like ExtJS)
Also, I routinely use the heavy/light distinction, but it seems in a completely different way. I almost don't care how heavy something that run on the server-side of a web application is, on the back-end "heavy" generally translates to "contains complexity I'm not willing to deal with". "heavy" on the frontend for me means both in footprint and complexity.
- Rails (just about the heaviest web framework ever made for ruby, despite it's wide appeal)
- Ember (I absolutely love ember, but it is by far the heaviest modern JS framework... I don't include things like ExtJS)
Also, I routinely use the heavy/light distinction, but it seems in a completely different way. I almost don't care how heavy something that run on the server-side of a web application is, on the back-end "heavy" generally translates to "contains complexity I'm not willing to deal with". "heavy" on the frontend for me means both in footprint and complexity.