It doesn't have to be wild west but I don't disagree it usually turns into that.
Before frameworks I spent a lot of cycles learning (usually the hard way) how to organize jQuery/JS code so it wasn't a total mess. I like to think I finally got it fairly maintainable for reasonable sized code bases. But by that time existing frameworks made a lot more sense so that's a bunch of thinking I'll never get back. I would guess I'm not the only one in this situation either.
Here's a really good book BTW if someone isn't aware of it.
Before frameworks I spent a lot of cycles learning (usually the hard way) how to organize jQuery/JS code so it wasn't a total mess. I like to think I finally got it fairly maintainable for reasonable sized code bases. But by that time existing frameworks made a lot more sense so that's a bunch of thinking I'll never get back. I would guess I'm not the only one in this situation either.
Here's a really good book BTW if someone isn't aware of it.
https://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/b...