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Re:Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and ... by thedanbob on Thursday October 21, 2021 @10:58AM (#28945405)
> -Spend most of my time dealing with tooling issues.

I just spent 3 days debugging a bizarre frontend issue. Turns out I just didn't understand how webpack works and was loading it wrong.

And once I fixed that, I had to fix my postcss config because something somewhere had a breaking change at some point.

I feel like almost everything I learn these days is how to deal with the idiosyncrasies of dozens of versions of dozens of tools. My actual programming ability is stagnant. That's what's burning me out.

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Re:Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and ... by mouzogu on Friday October 22, 2021 @04:15AM (#28954779)
Yes, I recently installed an npm package I built about 4 months ago and got an error the main attribute in the package.json file is deprecated. Googled it, without any meaningful search results.

Just a small taste of my day, another rabbit hole to get lost in for a few hours whilst deadlines for actual work are looming.

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Re:Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and ... by dntrkv on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:26PM (#28952810)
Do not use Webpack for small personal projects. Zero-config tools like Parcel are much better for that.
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