mariusOct 1, 2025

The more I work on #ONI, which is basically a web components frontend for an as basic as possible #ActivityPub client to server service, the more I realize I'm just not built for JavaScript programming.

Despite having put in the hours every day for a number of months, the whole Promise paradigm just doesn't seem to click for me.

Now I'm struggling to create a throbber component (easy) while fetches happen in the background (easy) and then have it replaced (not easy) by actual content (easy).

😱 Gaaah!!!

#frontend #web_components #litjs #JavasScript

Show threadTodd Sundsted
@mariusor my goal is always to write code that is simple enough i can understand it later. on the backend, i feel like i can do that. on the frontend, i don't feel like i know how to do that, at all...
Oct 1, 2025 at 1:06pmWeb