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Any of you keeping up to date with modern web dev? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Svelte is where the fun is 🙂

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, even Apple has been hiring Svelte developers for 4 or so years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

When I start to feel overwhelmed, I just go check the Days since the last new JavaScript framework counter.

Usually calms me down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.