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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 It is true that that some things, especially the webpack config and Typescript loading, were outdated but the overall design and architecture of the app was still understandable and modern.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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jolt42 ◴[05 Feb 25 19:54 UTC] No.42954167[source]▶
"frontend" is the wrong word, he should have said "web". Writing desktop UIs or mobile apps tends to be elegant. And probably "SPA frontend" as server-side UIs are also much cleaner.
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1. phist_mcgee ◴[05 Feb 25 20:22 UTC] No.42954575[source]▶
These days web/mobile is implied by frontend. I'd say a very large proportion now work on these two compared to desktop.