I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine

Re:I completely ignored the front end development scene for ... by taeric on Friday September 03, 2021 @08:44PM (#28411080)

The speed with which Google moved things around 2012 was just stupid. Gwt to angular was fast and left basically no real migration path. Or recompense for having jumped on in the first place.

I believe angular got better, but I didn't stick around to find out.

React has at least been steady. It has some parts that I'm personally in the camp is over engineered. But, I think that is more that the scene encourages highly engineered solutions. Reminds me a lot of the j2ee days where there was just so much ceremony on a basic ui.

The rest of the technologies you list are similar to me. Not wrong or bad choices, at large. Also not typically needed, at large.

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Re:I completely ignored the front end development scene for ... by jonas21 on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:03PM (#28411158)

> React has at least been steady.

Huh? I did a bunch of React work a few years ago when everything was classes. Then I went off and did other stuff for a bit, and when I came back to React, everyone was using hooks.

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Re:I completely ignored the front end development scene for ... by hermanradtke on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:07PM (#28411183)

But you can still use that same class syntax when writing your components.

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Re:I completely ignored the front end development scene for ... by taeric on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:12PM (#28411213)

Yeah. I should have been clearer on that. React has been steady in that the same code mostly still works.

That or I've just been lucky. Very possible. I have mostly ignored the fuss over redux and friends.

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