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As a non-React developer: forms, before React, were actually super simple. The author mentions they forgot how to do forms the normal way, but like, can you ima

As a non-React developer: forms, before React, were actually super simple. The author mentions they forgot how to do forms the normal way, but like, can you imagine how excited they'll be by the simplicity?

orwin 6y ago
i think (but i'm not sure) that this blog post is a joke?
- shirian 6y ago
  I don't think so. Check the accompanying githup repo.
runawaybottle 6y ago
Well, think about time just for a second. Take your average 25 year old frontend developer, for example. Five years ago in 2015, we were sort of coming out of Jquery. That means all these people had to be doing professional modern web development at the age of 20. What’s the likelihood of that for most people? Take you average bootcamper, by definition they didn’t know modern web development when they were about 22. If they graduated recently, that means around 2015 they were maybe 17 years old, and if they went to a bootcamp post college, they sure as hell don’t know anything from the 2009-2016 era. So that’s who writes this stuff. They literally don’t remember a world where you can build very simple things without state management, without scoped styles, without jsx. I’m not an agist, but it’s like c’mon dude, it’s a blog, when did you start web development? Don’t write your own blog posts yet please, mature a little first. Way too much noise out there now days. Why do you need type checking for your blog? You really going to double check that you’re posting a string or something? Do whatever you want, but stop posting about it like it doesn’t sound unnecessary to the rest of us.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  You don't have to live through something to be aware of it. I'm not a web developer, and in 2015 I think I might have started programming, but even I have figured out that HTML forms are a thing that exist.
- gavinray 6y ago
  Haha, 23 year old developer here. First professional dev job at 18, coding since very young though. > "Five years ago in 2015, we were sort of coming out of Jquery." And HTML5 was still freshly standardized, Angular meant Angular.js, and your average web app was SSR MVC with view templates injected with controller variables, made interactive with jQuery. Rails and MongoDB was the move, GraphQL would've been released the same year, and everyone would be convinced it was a fad and huge meme. The React that would start to gain popularity around that time was a completely different ballgame. Redux wasn't hip yet, people were still using Flux from FB or Ken Wheeler's Flux plugin: https://github.com/kenwheeler/mcfly https://github.com/kenwheeler/mcfly What a wild ride it's been.

orwin 6y ago

i think (but i'm not sure) that this blog post is a joke?

shirian 6y ago
I don't think so. Check the accompanying githup repo.

runawaybottle 6y ago

Well, think about time just for a second. Take your average 25 year old frontend developer, for example. Five years ago in 2015, we were sort of coming out of Jquery. That means all these people had to be doing professional modern web development at the age of 20. What’s the likelihood of that for most people? Take you average bootcamper, by definition they didn’t know modern web development when they were about 22. If they graduated recently, that means around 2015 they were maybe 17 years old, and if they went to a bootcamp post college, they sure as hell don’t know anything from the 2009-2016 era. So that’s who writes this stuff. They literally don’t remember a world where you can build very simple things without state management, without scoped styles, without jsx. I’m not an agist, but it’s like c’mon dude, it’s a blog, when did you start web development? Don’t write your own blog posts yet please, mature a little first. Way too much noise out there now days. Why do you need type checking for your blog? You really going to double check that you’re posting a string or something? Do whatever you want, but stop posting about it like it doesn’t sound unnecessary to the rest of us.

saagarjha 6y ago
You don't have to live through something to be aware of it. I'm not a web developer, and in 2015 I think I might have started programming, but even I have figured out that HTML forms are a thing that exist.
gavinray 6y ago
Haha, 23 year old developer here. First professional dev job at 18, coding since very young though. > "Five years ago in 2015, we were sort of coming out of Jquery." And HTML5 was still freshly standardized, Angular meant Angular.js, and your average web app was SSR MVC with view templates injected with controller variables, made interactive with jQuery. Rails and MongoDB was the move, GraphQL would've been released the same year, and everyone would be convinced it was a fad and huge meme. The React that would start to gain popularity around that time was a completely different ballgame. Redux wasn't hip yet, people were still using Flux from FB or Ken Wheeler's Flux plugin: https://github.com/kenwheeler/mcfly https://github.com/kenwheeler/mcfly What a wild ride it's been.