Four questions (MANA) for judging frontend abstractions — Minimal, Aligned, Native, Additive. Platform First, without anti-framework ideology.
When I started building Aura Router, I thought I was solving a routing problem.
I wasn't.
I had an HTML and Web Components application that needed client-side navigation. I didn't want to rewrite it in React just to get SPA routing, and I didn't want another component model.
So I built a router around the platform I was already using:
HTML. Web Components. DOM. URLs. Browser navigation. JavaScript.
Adding React for routing left me maintaining two frontend stacks. I wanted declarative routes, complete HTML pages, and no…
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