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I believe you might have a slightly biased view of what front-end development largely looks like. What you're describing is the type of front-end development th

I believe you might have a slightly biased view of what front-end development largely looks like. What you're describing is the type of front-end development that goes on at the organizations that actually develop these frameworks. The vast majority of front-end development outside of that world is misguidedly trying to mimic that complexity on their static business informational page they maintain with a duct taped mess of bad practices everywhere. Now if you take a look at development outside of front-end and go to some large non-tech, mid-sized, or small business you'll probably also find poor practices (from my experience), but nothing like the mess I see in these same organizations trying front-end development now.

jakelazaroff 6y ago
If someone is making a static business informational page, it’s significantly more likely that they’re using WordPress and jQuery than e.g. React [1]. Like, significantly significantly — 20x more likely to be using jQuery (which is on a full 83% of all webpages) than React, and 30x more likely to be using WordPress than Gatsby or whatever. People on HN talk about React and friends because they’re building client-side apps that deserve full frameworks. But it’s absolutely not representative of most web development. [1] https://css-tricks.com/how-the-web-is-really-built/ https://css-tricks.com/how-the-web-is-really-built/
Pfhreak 6y ago
Perhaps, I've only seen front end projects at FAANG and personal projects. That said, my front projects have at least an eslint config and usually a CI/CD deployment strategy if not full on tests.