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It was React/GraphQL/Apollo that broke me. I liked it better when just knowing ruby and sql were good enough. Those jobs are still out there but they’re getting

It was React/GraphQL/Apollo that broke me. I liked it better when just knowing ruby and sql were good enough. Those jobs are still out there but they’re getting harder to find.

theonething 6y ago
Wow, you echoed my sentiments exactly. I just hate frontend development so much for some reason.
- collyw 6y ago
  Most apps would work just as well with server side rendering and a bit of jQuery. We have a spa at my current place and it doubles the complexity for no real gain. Debugging is painful.
  - patatino 6y ago
    You can do that too with react. Most of my stuff is asp.net mvc core with normal postbacks and on a couple pages where I „need“ that interactivity I add react
untog 6y ago
That pushed me away from web dev but not dev in general. Got into native mobile dev, now playing around with Rust. Wondering if I’ll end up full circling back to the web with WASM. Anyway, point is, there’s plenty of variety out there!
- iKevinShah 6y ago
  > Anyway, point is, there’s plenty of variety out there! Where can we find those? Almost every job posting ever needs 6-7 different technologies with multi-year experience in almost every.
- jamil7 6y ago
  I did the exact same 2 years ago and haven’t looked back. Development feels fun again.
UK-Al05 6y ago
Plently of java,c# and go backend jobs around.
phakding 6y ago
I started hating web dev in general after working in web dev for few years. It's the same CRUD operations over and over again with some massaging of the data. On top of that everyone wants to apply their latest and greatest idealogy (tdd, pair programming, agile) like they are trying to solve world poverty or something. I moved into high concurrency, low latency back end programming, jvm tuning sphere. Much more demanding and satisfying. Plus, no cookie cutter BS. I never want to go back to web dev again.

It was React/GraphQL/Apollo that broke me. I liked it better when just knowing ruby and sql were good enough. Those jobs are still out there but they’re getting harder to find.

theonething 6y ago

Wow, you echoed my sentiments exactly. I just hate frontend development so much for some reason.

collyw 6y ago
Most apps would work just as well with server side rendering and a bit of jQuery. We have a spa at my current place and it doubles the complexity for no real gain. Debugging is painful.
- patatino 6y ago
  You can do that too with react. Most of my stuff is asp.net mvc core with normal postbacks and on a couple pages where I „need“ that interactivity I add react

untog 6y ago

That pushed me away from web dev but not dev in general. Got into native mobile dev, now playing around with Rust. Wondering if I’ll end up full circling back to the web with WASM. Anyway, point is, there’s plenty of variety out there!

iKevinShah 6y ago
> Anyway, point is, there’s plenty of variety out there! Where can we find those? Almost every job posting ever needs 6-7 different technologies with multi-year experience in almost every.
jamil7 6y ago
I did the exact same 2 years ago and haven’t looked back. Development feels fun again.

UK-Al05 6y ago

Plently of java,c# and go backend jobs around.

phakding 6y ago

I started hating web dev in general after working in web dev for few years. It's the same CRUD operations over and over again with some massaging of the data. On top of that everyone wants to apply their latest and greatest idealogy (tdd, pair programming, agile) like they are trying to solve world poverty or something. I moved into high concurrency, low latency back end programming, jvm tuning sphere. Much more demanding and satisfying. Plus, no cookie cutter BS. I never want to go back to web dev again.