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vivzkestrel ◴[14 Oct 24 03:52 UTC] No.41834021[source]▶
Are we trying to reinvent web development? Last few years have been wild. We abandoned HTML CSS and JS websites that used to work just fine and ran after frontend component frameworks and now the circle is getting completed by building tools and extensions we had 20 yrs ago
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stevage ◴[14 Oct 24 06:59 UTC] No.41834938[source]▶
>We abandoned HTML CSS and JS websites that used to work just fine

Hmm. Have you actually done much web development in the last 10 years?

Building websites with raw HTML, CSS and JS 10 years ago was very much not "just fine". There's a reason frameworks were invented.

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bugtodiffer ◴[14 Oct 24 07:28 UTC] No.41835106[source]▶
Oh I think it is very much "just fine", but people have requirements which make things too complicated. I find it way harder to work in a React app than a few .html and .js files. TypeScript's cool though.
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nicoburns ◴[14 Oct 24 09:05 UTC] No.41835657[source]▶
Most people working professionally as web developers have limited ability to reduce the requirements and have to implement what their company ask for. At that point having something to manage the complexity is much better than not.
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1. bugtodiffer ◴[15 Oct 24 09:34 UTC] No.41846730[source]▶
Yeah. I'd argue you should quit if you as dev have no say in the development, but what do I know