Re:Why is modern web development so complicated?
by asark on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @07:37PM
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I mean SPAs and near-SPAs. "Web apps". Web sites as in mostly server-rendered sites with HTML, CSS, and some JS sugar on top could sub in for an awful lot of "web apps" and improve UX, performance, maintainability, and development cost.
[EDIT] incidentally I notice you keep arguing against things I've not actually written.
Re:Why is modern web development so complicated?
by ng12 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:07PM
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It's because I've been trying very hard to understand what your contention is. The bits about peacocking and resume-padding are... unconvincing.
> ...improve UX, performance, maintainability, and development cost.
I don't buy it at all. As mentioned, I've done both professionally and there are reasons I keep picking React (or a hybrid ala Next) that don't involve a bigger paycheck or "peacocking".
Re:Why is modern web development so complicated?
by asark on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:57PM
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It's usually companies or management/product folks paying for their product to have the peacock feathers. See also: flat/material redesigns not to improve usability—in fact it may make it worse—but to avoid "looking old", not because users complained or metrics look bad but because someone with a budget guesses maybe they might. Similar with choices to make fairly simple sites into heavy SPAs with questionable performance.
> It's because I've been trying very hard to understand what your contention is.
I appreciate it. Seriously!
The question is: what are you going to argue for instead? Not using the web at all is a non-starter, especially in the retail space where you'd get killed by a web-based competitor.
I don't know what your experience is, but historically my bosses haven't given half of a damn what tech stack I use. They care that I deliver on what I promise. Hypothetically, I could still be using PHP/HTML/jQuery but there are a great many reasons I don't and not one of them has to do with padding my resume.