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There's a increasingly larger amount of web developers who are only "trained in React/Angular/Vue" and are unable to understand how to use or the trade-offs of
by mixedCase 6y ago
There's a increasingly larger amount of web developers who are only "trained in React/Angular/Vue" and are unable to understand how to use or the trade-offs of regular websites using just HTML+CSS with only a little or no JS (that goes for both templated or fully static sites), and a surprising number of them even thinking they are some kind of "legacy technology".
At the very least, this kind of article is informative for that crowd.
- simonw 6y agoI'm fascinated by this. It seems that for any developer with less than five years of industry experience there's a reasonable chance that they've almost exclusively worked in an SPA, JavaScript-for-everything environment. I have a hunch that there are a lot of web professionals out there these days who genuinely don't know how to build a web application without JavaScript - POST forms, cookies and the like.
- earthboundkid 6y agoYou should make a video with a rebranded Django as “Reinhardt, the Multi Page Application” and see how it goes. Just do the original Rails “blog in ten minutes” demo to show it goes beyond todo lists.
- thrower123 6y agoThis is why we end up with a new reinvention of make every five years. The churn rate on junior developers is probably the single biggest factor in software over the past two decades.
- genericstorage3 6y agoI think it's wasted work/experience as css alone can't do everything. Then you'll end up having a project with highlighting logic in css and js. That's less than optimal