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It has long been my conviction that tech stacks like React are necessary and/or seen as good because the frontend is trying to solve overly complicated problems
by skore 7y ago
It has long been my conviction that tech stacks like React are necessary and/or seen as good because the frontend is trying to solve overly complicated problems. All of those framework-du-jour praises sound to me like people have found The New Great Tool for building a Tower of Babel¹.
Just, you know, have simpler problems?
SoC your stuff, solve the 80% instead of the 99%, challenge your assumptions about what you need and you'd be surprised how little complications you can get away with.
¹ one common tool in the pipeline actually being called babel never fails to amuse me.
- bonesss 7y ago> tech stacks like React are necessary and/or seen as good because the frontend is trying to solve overly complicated problems I think a lot of these issues are symptomatic of front-end oriented toolkits trying to solve combined frontend and backend issues, causing oodles of arbitrary complexity. It's hugely beneficial for some kinds of projects/teams, but so much of the challenge is simply due to domain impedence and using suboptimal tools for the job. Client-oriented solutions to server-client issues have some fundamental limitations.