I’ve been dipping my toes into NextJS, Vercel, PlanetScale, and other serverless / edge providers, and there’s so many terms / concepts thrown my way that I feel overwhelmed a lot of the time.

I mean, I’m already a web developer well versed with React, and I love my SPA setup with Vite, so for others outside the web dev space, this must be a nightmare to keep up with.

Was curious to hear your thoughts on the rapidly evolving space of web dev.

  • heartlessevil@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I do keep up with modern web development but that tends to be changes to things like CORS, client hints, things like that. I never used JavaScript and am never gonna start.

    Development is much more simple and stable, and the user experience is far superior, when you cut out JavaScript.

    • radarsat1@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      We have a guy doing svelte on my team and it looks great, I’m just hoping it’s not going to be a blocker down the road when we need more people. Is it popular these days?

  • Prefix@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I am, to a degree, but only because it is my job :)

    Frontend has changed / is changing much more rapidly than backend, IMO.

    I’m not a huge fan of this shift towards eng-driven dev-ops. I get why it’s happened, but infra has never been particularly interesting to me personally and I don’t enjoy owning that aspect of the stack.

  • loke@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    My current open source project is a programming language engine, which I implemented in Kotlin and compile to the JVM, Native as well as JS. That means I can run the JS version in a browser, but I don’t have to deal (much with JS itself). The actual web UI is very minimal, because developing for the web is, as you correctly asserted, a nightmare.