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Re:The Frontend Treadmill by mplanchard on Thursday March 20, 2025 @03:58PM (#43428142)
I’ve been writing JS since the PHP and jquery days, so I’m not unfamiliar. I understand these libraries are doing complex things, but they also seem to love churning for churn’s sake (react hooks is an example, svelte v5 is another, eslint entirely deprecating their old config format is yet another).

I don’t mind learning or using a framework to do complicated things. I mind when the ecosystem as a whole makes it so much harder to get real work done and instead forces everyone to do busywork like switching tsconfig to eslint, then switching eslint config to the new flat format.

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Re:The Frontend Treadmill by schindlabua on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:33PM (#43429247)
Hooks were great. But yeah eslint flat config is probably also better than the old format but we could have easily done without that breaking change you're right.

The churn is part of why I try to do mostly backend these days, especially with the current state of tooling. Like when react came out it was immediately clear it was going to be a mainstay, I can't imagine nextjs in it's current form to be around in a few years because it's very terrible and I want the metaframework dust to settle a bit before diving back in.

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