How the Fuck Did We Get Here?

Re:How the Fuck Did We Get Here? by siquick on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:03PM (#35488243)

Been a front end dev on and off for nearly 15 years. The DX is as good as it’s ever been now. JS/TS have become nice languages and deployments on platforms like Vercel are an absolute breeze and Tailwind means I don’t have to decipher anyone’s CSS class naming convention.

Whenever I see people say things like “we are back where we started with file based routing” I see it more that we’ve remembered what was good about the old days and cherry-picked that good stuff.

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Re:How the Fuck Did We Get Here? by jollyllama on Monday April 10, 2023 @09:24AM (#35511976)

Tailwind is great, but I consider it an outlier. They went and made a stand-alone compiler so you don't have to use NPM build processes. It works very well.

It's less that people take issue with JS/TS itself and more the frameworks that use it and the associated dependencies and tooling. The complaints in the article are very representative of my experience.

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