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It is true that PHP has a bad reputation and that effectively limits number of potential skilled developers. Number of available developers is still high but it could be even higher if it had the same successful propaganda as JavaScript or Python. There is nothing in the language itself that should stop it from competing with any general purpose language, not anymore. I think this is the next important step for PHP,…
Wow, that was so on point. > Somewhere right now some poor developer inherits a Angular 1.1 project built with gulp. That hit hard. I was reassigned to an old project from 5 years ago with an archaic framework, to refactor all the code to the "new shinny JS framework". Ironically, I was in the team that built it 5 years ago. It is dreadful. Rinse and repeat. I feel like I'm doing something wrong when I advocate again…
Dynamically update parts of your page but still render everything on the backend, where you already have all your data.
Pass HTML fragments back, like we did in the old days prior to the JSON hype, but let htmx do the fetch & swap work so you don’t have to, that is only repetitive anyways.
Now you hardly need jQuery (or similar) anymore either, Just HTML & CSS.