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Story of my life as a front end developer... you can invent an abstraction to make life easier and simultaneously increase code size and complexity more than 10
by austincheney 8y ago
Story of my life as a front end developer... you can invent an abstraction to make life easier and simultaneously increase code size and complexity more than 10 fold. Easy is often an anti-thesis of simple.
Basic front end code isn't that challenging, but it does take some actual practice (not half-ass practice followed by a million poorly considered short-cuts).
- exogen 8y agoWhat about non-basic front end code?
- austincheney 8y agoWell I did spend this weekend trying figure out how to dynamically update keyframe rules with JavaScript only to discover the window.CSSKeyframesRule API is incomplete on most browsers so I found a different nonstandard way to solve that problem cross browser. I have not seen a failure to implement standards like that in many years. Just about everything else on the frontend is absolutely solid cross browser with 5+ years of thoroughly tested support. People don’t write abstractions to fix weak technology, they do it to fix weak developers.
- exogen 8y agoNo.