Re:In web design, everything easy is hard again
by root_axis on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @03:02PM
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> For sites like the author of that article creates though, which are often described as "brochure websites", those tools simply aren't needed, and yet there is conforming pressure within the community that pushes developers to make sites like that using the new tools, which is overkill and can turn something simple into something complex.
I understand what you're saying, but the bottom line is that "the conforming pressure" is illusory. At the end of the day the engineering team must deliver a product that works to specification and is not difficult to maintain, that is the only real pressure, there is no rational justification for choosing a tool that is less likely to accomplish that goal when a suitable one already exists. If someone is in charge of building a "brochure website" and they select a complicated SPA pipeline with many build steps as the solution then they are objectively doing the wrong thing and that's the end of the story, nothing in that scenario reflects on any aspect of the actual tools.
> You can't pretend that people conform to social pressures.
I don't, but those people are the problem, not the tool.
I understand what you're saying, but the bottom line is that "the conforming pressure" is illusory. At the end of the day the engineering team must deliver a product that works to specification and is not difficult to maintain, that is the only real pressure, there is no rational justification for choosing a tool that is less likely to accomplish that goal when a suitable one already exists. If someone is in charge of building a "brochure website" and they select a complicated SPA pipeline with many build steps as the solution then they are objectively doing the wrong thing and that's the end of the story, nothing in that scenario reflects on any aspect of the actual tools.
> You can't pretend that people conform to social pressures.
I don't, but those people are the problem, not the tool.