YUI provides a set of libraries that can be used to complete a number of development tasks, which would take a lot longer without.
I see there being a number of products people could be using in this space, and they aren’t necessarily conflicting. We have GWT - The google toolkit, this is a pretty cool platform - especially for me (being a Java Developer). Then there is the AJAX toolkit for .NET, and the .NET Community AJAX toolkit extenders, these are pretty cool tools and will help .NET developers quickly bring AJAX enabled websites to their audiences. And of course there is Ruby on Rails and a mass of other tools available - especially as many of us enjoy putting these things together from scratch.
I especially enjoy putting this stuff together from scratch. However, I think I should learn about the tools that exist to make web development enterprise ready as opposed to playing around with concepts.
So I should learn about the YUI libraries, as I feel .NET tools introduce a ridiculous amount of content to the webpage and I find it difficult to bend .NET to do what I want it too - though I suppose I could override classes, I don’t feel that should be required. I basically feel the same way about GWT - it does some cool stuff and I am happy to seem something that I can build in eclipse like almost everything else…. But YUI seems to be all that is needed - some libraries that I can plug into HTML and call when I see fit… and hopefully it will work on more than IE.
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