A brief history of web development. And why your framework doesn't matter

Re:A brief history of web development. And why your framewor... by huygens6363 on Monday April 29, 2024 @01:58AM (#40194941)

Same here. I remember the days I was new and hip fondly.

I work with frontends among other things so I am semi-aware of the current state of insanity.

I try to not talk too much and go with the flow. The older I get the more software (and business) in general seems like it’s built out of raw insanity.

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Re:A brief history of web development. And why your framewor... by antoniuschan99 on Monday April 29, 2024 @02:21AM (#40195081)

I see it more like how we have flip phones now. It’s similar but not the same.

I started working post Ajax using jQuery using Java JSP’s (2010).

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Re:A brief history of web development. And why your framewor... by ffsm8 on Monday April 29, 2024 @06:20AM (#40196555)

I feel old too, reading this same argument today. I joined this industry in early 2010 and people were saying the same things about frontend stacks.

Back then, I believed that the people making this argument were onto something, as it felt overly complicated to me as a beginner.

At this point it feels more likely that the people making this argument don't have any kind of experience in frontend development that span multiple teams collaborating on the same UI.

In the backend this was "solved" through mocroservices. In the frontend you're gonna be in a world of pain unless you're using one of the popular spa frameworks. Well, you're probably still gonna be in pain. It'd just be worse if you didn't use the framework.

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