Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018)

Re:Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018) by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Monday May 30, 2022 @03:32PM (#31562744)

I think part of the reason is the evolution of common user networking.

Initially, users had low bandwidth connections, and web pages were mostly static with links.

Then came JavaScript interactivity and AJAX.

As users bandwidth grew, we started having heavier frameworks and SPAs.

I believe there is another revolution that is happening now because of decreased latency. Recently with protocols such as HTTP2, web sockets, and edge computing, round trip latency is greatly decreased. This is resulting in UI where more of the logic lives on the server and has led to such libraries as htmx (client) and Turbo.

It will be interesting to see where this settles out.

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Re:Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018) by blueslurpee on Monday May 30, 2022 @06:30PM (#31564318)

Agreed, very interesting things going on in the "edge" space. I personally think this is why HN is so jazzed about things like fly.io. Super low latency opens up a whole new category of applications, it's a "step function" change in that regard.

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Re:Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018) by crooked-v on Monday May 30, 2022 @04:11PM (#31563181)

React is also pushing in the 'edge computing' direction with Suspense and with major libs like Next implementing the idea of "server components".

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