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Software development topics I've changed my mind on

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873 points belter | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 09:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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dtquad ◴[05 Feb 25 14:02 UTC] No.42948592[source]▶
>Frontend development is a nightmare world of Kafkaesque awfulness I no longer enjoy

As a backend/systems engineer I recently had to look at a React + Typescript + MobX app from 2019/2020. It is true that that some things, especially the webpack config and Typescript loading, were outdated but the overall design and architecture of the app was still understandable and modern. With some help from ChatGPT it took very little time to migrate to Vite and update dependencies. By 2019/2020 React Hooks had already been out for some time but there were still some class components in the app. They were easily migrated to functional components + Hooks using ChatGPT.

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1. ge96 ◴[05 Feb 25 17:07 UTC] No.42951645[source]▶
I'll be the Steve Ballmer saying "I love JavaScript" but man it is great, I have made so many apps in different forms: web, deskop, mobile. If I needed to I can go into XCode and work on Swift. I have stuck with one stack though just ReactJS/NodeJS/ReactNative/ElectronJS or PWA. I prefer including SASS styles.

I still think TS is annoying to work with but I'm coming around since I have to use it at work and libraries like React Native are using it by default. Swift/C++ has typing but yeah, I like plain JS for speed development and typing can get annoying especially for a personal app.