The bar just keeps moving higher. Right now making a website that looked good a decade a go is very easy, but the cutting edge is about responsive, highly inter

The bar just keeps moving higher. Right now making a website that looked good a decade a go is very easy, but the cutting edge is about responsive, highly interactive applications. Additionally they are constructed by teams of people, increasing the level of complexity because of the need to share code while staying dependency-free. Client applications have become increasingly complex for anything that isn't a trivial website that mostly displays information. Complexity management on the client side I think is its own paradigm that is often not given enough credit and then people get surprised why their UI grows increasingly fragile while taking days to implement seemingly simple features. Ironically some of the tools in the article will probably grow old which is part of the difficulty here. People learn the libraries, then it seems a new, better library comes along and makes things even better. Everything comes together once you learn it's about managing the algorithms, data, as well as rendering to the screen.