in reply to Re: Perl Contempt in My Workplace
in thread Perl Contempt in My Workplace

I've been using DataTables for years and have never found a use-case where a module would have helped. You prepare your data and send it to the front end as JSON. All the heavy lifting in that application is in writing the JS and particularly the CSS. You make a good point but this is a bad example.


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

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Re^3: Perl Contempt in My Workplace
by vkon (Curate) on May 05, 2021 at 16:50 UTC
    ...ok,
    so probably I should have posted my question here and you could have helped me back then. That's good. :)
    Perlmonks is a very strong point of Perl community.

    Still, I do not think of my example as "bad example".

    see: I tried different CPAN modules, but these haven't fulfilled me.
    I honestly searched both Perl @ cpan+perlmonks+google and searched nodejs @ npmjs+stackoverflow+google and found better solution in nodejs land.

    I am a bad searcher? probably. should I improve my google-fu? probably.
    However I still think this is not a bad example in a sense that this is a real-life example.

    I am some poor user who found some solution outside of perl for some reasons....
    I do not think that I am alone with such experience

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      I don't think you are a bad searcher ... I just think Perl devs maybe get their hands dirtier than JS devs? For reference, see my repo at https://github.com/1nickt/ContactMyReps. I am genuinely interested in where you think that a module would have helped in that case. Which part of my Perl code is replaced by your node solution?

      Thanks!


      The way forward always starts with a minimal test.
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        I've browsed your git repository very briefly - it is some web service - is it related to "datatables"?
        or what it should demonstrate?
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