Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development

Post by npteljes » Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 8:04 AM UTC

5350-uiop-1130 wrote: post #229

npteljes wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come on now. With modern flow, you have to "install git", but in ye olde times you don't install svn or ftp? And back then we didn't have gatekeeping seniors? And we request sudo now, and not back then? I think you got that confused. Old software sucked a lot, and automation sucked a lot. Weird issues where you HAD to know what went wrong, because handholding was looked down upon. The lack of automation meant that se…

> Also, what can you do on the frontend only? I was talking specifically about React. But it's not a surprise that "modern front end" devs conflate React with JavaScript.

I see. I was confused by the statement before it: "no such thing as frontend development. only full stack."

Getting back to the point, my simplepdf.eu example is indeed using React - according to Builtwith, it's built with Next.js, which is used to build React applications.

Post by kirso » Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 2:38 PM UTC

ScottStevenson wrote: post #71

coffeefirst wrote: post #16

I call this the "path to enlightenment." You have discovered that the most popular toolchain is overkill for 95% of the things its used for. The problem is that's true literally across the board. You move to the backend and you have to deal with people who fell in love with microservices and weird databases that they didn't need. You move to ops and you have to deal with k8s when a single container would do. If you t…

>Why does this happen? I wrote about a hypothesis here: https://medium.com/@scott.stevenson/how-to-finally-make-some... Most of us are scared by the ambiguity of actual creative work, so unless we are under the threat of deadline, we seek out "structured games" to play so that we can put off the anxiety of freeform work. These games are: (1) Tool Game: Researching and setting up tools (2) Learning Game: Books, podcas…

Isn't this literally just self-sabotaging? :)

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