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Is this really a 'good rant' on web development tools? It's a rant on the node.js community and the state of front-end development, kinda. The thing is, I hav

Is this really a 'good rant' on web development tools? It's a rant on the node.js community and the state of front-end development, kinda. The thing is, I have no problem with these. I make sites with node, I make sites with Play (scala). I need a front-end so use React, Angular, whatever. Recently I've been thinking more about the state of hosting than of web development. I thought hosting was a solved problem, than I created my first meteor app and pushed it to a meteor server and thought to myself 'WOW, why isn't everything so easy'. Anybody have thoughts on hosting? Heroku et al are easy, but I still end up setting up dbs, s3 storage and a bunch of other services all the time, and of course, I do these things for each dev/test/stage/prod.

throwaway13337 11y ago
That same realization can be made with UI libraries that don't have to deal with the history and standards of modern web. The front end js libs (react, angular) are a nice patchwork over a pile of mess, but do you really think that we would have the same problems making simple websites if we could design it without the standards agreements and history? Look at authoring tools of UIs outside of web and you'll find theyre much simpler, intuitive, wysiwyg, but still powerful. E.g. Unity's UI lib, even flash had something nice for it's use case. Like Hypercard was. Remember that? The web front end could be a lot better.