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This is so overdue. I'm ecstatic to see this finally happening. The frontend framework bloat trend honestly went on ten years too long. It was like the thin client and thick client debate turned into the thick client and thicker client debate. People will roll a gigantic create-react-app mess for the tiniest of frontend projects. Yes, it's an instant codebase! But that's all code you have to maintain. Stuff like hotw…
This is so overdue. I'm ecstatic to see this finally happening. The frontend framework bloat trend honestly went on ten years too long. It was like the thin client and thick client debate turned into the thick client and thicker client debate. People will roll a gigantic create-react-app mess for the tiniest of frontend projects. Yes, it's an instant codebase! But that's all code you have to maintain. Stuff like hotw…
This is so overdue. I'm ecstatic to see this finally happening. The frontend framework bloat trend honestly went on ten years too long. It was like the thin client and thick client debate turned into the thick client and thicker client debate. People will roll a gigantic create-react-app mess for the tiniest of frontend projects. Yes, it's an instant codebase! But that's all code you have to maintain. Stuff like hotw…
I don’t see the difference. Isn’t backend code code you have to maintain too?
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SPAs solved a labor problem I think. It was the reason that front end development grew so fast. It is much faster to train people on a combo js+css framework rather than training someone on backend languages, databases, queues, authentication, scaling + html & css for server side rendering.
We use SPAs and a pretty strict typescript/react stack. And I still have to know: Cloud Tech (AWS) which also includes, lambdas, Iam management, dynamoDB, cdk or serverless, API gateway, S3, secret managers etc. Add to that list the technologies that often get thrown in for extra monitoring testing etc. Jest or mocha/Chai for unit tests. Dynatrace for monitoring. Kibana or something for logs. Some tool for analytics.…
There’s nothing stopping companies from using the cloud for its primitives (compute and storage), maybe with managed FOSS services (RDS Postgres). We don’t _need_ to go all in on AWS to build a ‘modern’ web application. Yet somehow much of the industry dances to AWS’ tune on how to architect software.
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Why can't anybody talk about the fact that HTML was not designed for being dynamic? Isn't there any format that is a real alternative to HTML, which is truly interactive, lighter than the DOM, use text as a mediu, is multi usage and platform agnostic, can use whatever scripting language, and be easily rendered? It's not another new format, it's just that a new format is needed to make things simpler. I have zero pati…
I also miss Flash.
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yeah, this was particularly ironic. The back button has evolved alongside SPAs, and users mostly don't expect or want their back button to take them back through the hundreds of small state changes they've caused by interacting naturally with a UI.