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Rails doesn't give you auth* though.
I can imagine people thinking Devise is Rails' own auth, given how popular it is.
I have a theory. In the old days web development was looked down upon by "real" programmers. But then the WWW really took off and people started moving over from the C/Java world into the world of JavaScript. These are the people that insanely complicated web development when they tried to make it as complicated as the development world they came out of.
JS is quite a hacky language. Trying to turn it into Java neuters some of the benefits of being hacky (I'm looking at you, Typescript). But at some point, it's neither a hacky Lisp like language, nor is it stable like Java or C++. It's just a middle ground that does these things poorly. It would be nice to have a new programming language from scratch built to handle all the async/reactive mess. But until then JS is o…
```
try {
return await fetch(url);
handleError(e)
```
Because that (metaphorically speaking) is 90% of what I write. Throw in the occasional closure, `map()` or `reduce()`
My day to day headaches are never from TS, and always from unpredictable DOM api/layout/style behavior.
I guess I just don’t have any frame of reference for how “nice” a language can be. Is it just that JS has so many “bad parts” and footguns that I’ve gotten good at ignoring?
I used Turbolinks for the first time on a new Rails app about 2 years ago and was floored by the impact - it felt like a SPA in terms of no page loads and overall speed. I'm convinced that this is the solution for the majority of use-cases, combined with selective usage of either React components or something like Stimulus where you need more sophisticated UI components.
Is there an equivalent of Turbolinks for something like Django? Or even for MVC PHP apps?
It's interesting to me that in video games we talk less about frameworks than we do engines. Doing a few tutorials, I was shocked at how little code I had to write these days with something like Unity or Godot. Breakout indie success stories are often lead by artistic types, since it seems harder to teach a typical programmer to draw than to teach an artist enough code to get by. And I think the scene is richer for i…
A website, often these days, is an ever evolving beast forever changing and adding features to it is (apparently) imperative to ensure that the gravy train keeps flowing. Its one of the reasons why I think there's an increased focus on developer productivity in web frameworks, libraries, and tooling rather than a focus on delivering a better solution.
I am going to advocate the other way: https://qbix.com/blog/2020/01/02/the-case-for-building-clien...
E: Actually it might just be a really heavy page. It’s a disaster on mobile.
E2: After a few refreshes, it seems to be loading normally.
If not SPAs, and hear me out on this one, how about... Native applications
Yeah, no thanks. There's a reason we abandoned them in the first place. I've never heard of anyone who's itching to go back to Swing.
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Stackoverflow -- the website that every developer uses probably all the time -- is an example of a site running on a very small number of machines efficiently. I'd rather have their architecture than 100's of VMs.
It’s remarkably efficient and simple: https://stackexchange.com/performance For those who are discouraged by the massive complexity of Kubernetes/Terraform and various daunting system design examples of big sites, remember you can scale to a ridiculous levels (barring video or heavy processing apps) with just vertical scaling. Before you need fancy Instagram scale frameworks, you’ll have other things to worry about l…
I think if Chrome changes to the omnibox really click. The need for SPA in general will dwindle. You cannot see the URL so if it is ugly who cares. And if the page refreshes fast enough most end users will not be able to tell you are on a SPA or not.
as one dev working part time, i am still able to build for netscape 3 and lynx, adding from there.