Why is modern web development so complicated?

Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by UncleMeat on Thursday August 08, 2019 @12:13PM (#20645829)

None of those sites are static html. Not even close.

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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by buboard on Thursday August 08, 2019 @12:40PM (#20646077)

html != static

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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by azernik on Thursday August 08, 2019 @04:03PM (#20648094)

Static literally == not using JavaScript to manipulate the DOM. Once you're stuck using JS for core functionality, you really want a decent programming language.

I think people are complaining about two separate things - actually-static-ish websites like newspapers, shipping 10MB, and web apps like Facebook shipping 10MB. The latter is an unavoidable outcome of shipping Serious Software; the former is mostly driven by ad networks, not development ease.

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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by kuzimoto on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:28AM (#20653672)

I think static could have multiple meaning, and the one the original comment meant is ambiguous. There are "static site generators" which technically generate static sites, but could still use JavaScript.

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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by buboard on Friday August 09, 2019 @12:04PM (#20655599)

Yeah we re talking about html, not static. Plus, iirc, it is actually most SPAs that are ‘static’, i.e served as plain index.html containing all the Javascript.

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