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Genuine question: Judging from the comments, seems like people like this approach. So why is the general trend more towards approaches that use javascript (sometimes unnecessarily) and frameworks like React?
OMG it feels so good to not be the lone voice in the woods. I would say about 3/4 of my frustrations as a user are from sites that should have simply been built with HTML + CSS and minimal Javascript. The front end community most days feels like a jobs program.
Genuine question: Judging from the comments, seems like people like this approach. So why is the general trend more towards approaches that use javascript (sometimes unnecessarily) and frameworks like React?
But what users like and what developers like (and can quickly develop) are often very different things.
Genuine question: Judging from the comments, seems like people like this approach. So why is the general trend more towards approaches that use javascript (sometimes unnecessarily) and frameworks like React?
Genuine question: Judging from the comments, seems like people like this approach. So why is the general trend more towards approaches that use javascript (sometimes unnecessarily) and frameworks like React?
The web is replacing traditional thick clients, which also assumed a fairly stable network connection and platform specification.
Government systems need to work with the lowest denominator - even if it's not that common. Tech startups only need 1 client to exist at the start (and can mostly trust that their requirements will become commonplace as they scale).
Genuine question: Judging from the comments, seems like people like this approach. So why is the general trend more towards approaches that use javascript (sometimes unnecessarily) and frameworks like React?
There were will always be a group of devs that don’t like it because it isn’t the same web as in their heyday, and they all will eagerly pile on anything remotely JS-critical is posted on HN.
There is a selection bias to the comments that does not accurately reflect the industry opinion.
Genuine question: Judging from the comments, seems like people like this approach. So why is the general trend more towards approaches that use javascript (sometimes unnecessarily) and frameworks like React?
Secondly it's less "boring" for developers and arguably less work.
Thirdly you have a large amount of only-frontend (often only-React) devs know who won't think of alternatives.
If the website is simple then definitely no SPA is needed, either htmx or alpinejs or vanilla can get the job done.
User first programming rather than work inflating bloated frameworks mainly used to justify further dev work. Which one do engineers choose
If you doubt this, think how many times you've seen a framework advertised due to its ease of use for developers vs due to e.g. performance in low bandwidth.
OMG it feels so good to not be the lone voice in the woods. I would say about 3/4 of my frustrations as a user are from sites that should have simply been built with HTML + CSS and minimal Javascript. The front end community most days feels like a jobs program.