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I’m fairly new to web dev and using Vue. Web dev is a complete mess, it’s true. I also think the direction of travel is good from what I’ve seen, we’re making
by randomsearch 8y ago
I’m fairly new to web dev and using Vue.
Web dev is a complete mess, it’s true.
I also think the direction of travel is good from what I’ve seen, we’re making progress in improving it. For example, introducing types, getting away from hacks like bootstrap etc.
What I do find infuriating is that it seems most of the problems are not new and already well solved. Ultimately it looks like web dev is going to be quite similar to Android/iOS/Java Applet dev, which themselves are not particularly innovative (XML layout, MVC-variant style). Package management has been done a gazillion times but we have yet another tool, etc.
Anyone understand exactly how we got here?
I’d also be interested if more experienced people have a good idea what the endgame is, where this is all headed.
- GordonS 8y ago> hacks like bootstrap Do you mean Twitter Bootstrap, the CSS framework? I've never considered it a 'hack'?
- randomsearch 8y agoWell, I think it's a hack in that it's kinda providing functionality you need that isn't baked in, by making some opinionated decisions and then encoding them in fragments of class names (as one example). That feels like a (good) hack to me.