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Node devs tend to be minimalists, DIY’ers, Lego™ artists, if you will. We want a nice set of tools and pieces at our disposal that we can compose into whatever creation we imagine.
If you’ve bought into Node’s small module paradigm, stuff like Ember, Angular, and even jQuery can feel a bit like excessively large Duplo™ blocks.
To be clear, this doesn’t make them bad. I’m glad they exist. Clearly, they empower scores of developers to create some great things on the frontend.
Of course we think Ampersand modules are a great match for building frontends for our Node applications. But for Ampersand we use the term “framework” very loosely. As demonstrated by how people are using it, it’s really is just a loosely coupled set of tools.
In the end, the only constant in our field is change. We simply cannot, in good conscience, assert that any single toolset (even our own) is the only valid approach. It’s just not how we think development should work.
