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Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by ilrwbwrkhv on Monday January 02, 2023 @10:43AM (#34219079)
All this complexity is actually a counter reaction to frontend developers not being considered to be real developers. They went overboard trying to prove that they are.
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Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by booleandilemma on Monday January 02, 2023 @11:01AM (#34219341)
See: microfrontends
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Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by wellanyway on Monday January 02, 2023 @01:38PM (#34221780)
Savage, but a very interesting take.
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Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by andix on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @05:12PM (#34238865)
I think there is some truth in that thought. If they spend some of their energy into learning a backend technology, this would be much better spent effort. From my experience frontend-only developers are often very limited in their programming skills. Frontend development has its own complicated challenges, but usually the programming part is quite trivial compared to backend. And a lot of logic inside frontends would be better off in the backend (Full Stack developer speaking here).
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