alt Hacker NewsReact was a major improvement over Backbone + Marionette. Pre-jQuery was a shit-show as they hadn't even standardised the DOM.
Before that was XMLHttpRequest (particularly during my .Net WebForm days) and even had to use the ActiveXObject in IE that predated JSON.
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biinjo • today at 4:55 AM
Oh boy the ActiveXObject brings back some ~~ptsd~~ fond memories.
XML, XMLHttpRequest, and XSLT in IE 5 was peak web dev for me. Never been more productive.