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Re:Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling by sam0x17 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @12:50PM (#31969073)
Sticking with your analogy, in the early 2000s we built cabinents and intricate mantelpieces and things ike that, and there were essentially no tools. In the early 2022s we still build cabinents and intricate mantelpieces, but there are a million tools. Meanwhile browser support has become way more consistent across the board and CSS has become easier, yet we think we need super complex tools to do the same tasks we did back in the day.
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Re:Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling by blowski on Sunday July 03, 2022 @01:06PM (#31969187)
when I started building websites in the late 90s, I needed to support Internet Explorer and Netscape running 15" CRT monitors. Few cared much about accessibility, performance, security, SEO, experimental releases. Clients wanted a 3 page website with few design requirements. I sliced up some PSDs into HTML pages with tables on it, and uploaded it via FTP to a single server.

If I tried to run a web-based business offering that today, I'd get very litle business.

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Re:Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling by brunno on Monday July 04, 2022 @09:01AM (#31976560)
Interestingly, there's a very high chance that those HTML pages with tables crafted in the 90s still render perfectly fine today (if they're still around).
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