Re:Ask HN: Do front-end developers fear the back-end?
by aristofun on Monday February 19, 2024 @12:07PM
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I may be biased about beginners’ preferences.
But the complexity of UI is not a matter of opinion or approach - it is a simple fact of having a far more complex state machine in simplest desktop app than in half of hi loaded services in the world (which are stateless, i.e. not having a state at all).
Frameworks and libraries help alleviate the pain and take care of low level dirty work, but they can’t remove the fundamental source of complexity.
But the complexity of UI is not a matter of opinion or approach - it is a simple fact of having a far more complex state machine in simplest desktop app than in half of hi loaded services in the world (which are stateless, i.e. not having a state at all).
Frameworks and libraries help alleviate the pain and take care of low level dirty work, but they can’t remove the fundamental source of complexity.