Re:Choose Boring Technology
by sjun on Thursday July 04, 2019 @11:39AM
(#20355467)
There's a big movement in the Web community to move everything to JavaScript. Js on the server side with Node, html generated by Javascript, and the latest trend CSS-in-js.
On one hand, this can be argued as centralizing on one technology that will reduce long term cost because the operational stack around it can be reused: tests, build tools, deployment. However it very much can be seen as adding another technology to manage since it's adding a shiny new library to maintain with all the bugs and kinks along the way.
On one hand, this can be argued as centralizing on one technology that will reduce long term cost because the operational stack around it can be reused: tests, build tools, deployment. However it very much can be seen as adding another technology to manage since it's adding a shiny new library to maintain with all the bugs and kinks along the way.