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I've been a web developer for just over a decade now. Lately, I've been rather amused at how much more elementary my websites are today compared to, say, 5 year
by z3c0 5y ago
I've been a web developer for just over a decade now. Lately, I've been rather amused at how much more elementary my websites are today compared to, say, 5 years ago. I went through all the MVW frameworks, the gulp builds, the MEAN stack, 100% JavaScript SPAs, Typescript, etc, until eventually finding myself back where I started: static HTML page, a lite CSS framework, and almost no JavaScript.
My development is faster than ever, my web pages are faster than ever, and I can spend more time making sure the website delivers information effectively than worrying about gluing a million disparate frameworks together.
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- vmception 5y agoSame, its almost a wholesale rejection and works just fine for either getting the point across or driving millions in revenue In the web3 space, all the “call to actions” are direct payments, so the funnel is reduced to a single step - optimized by orders of magnitude over the long winded funnels of web 2.0 services for even higher margins and even faster sales cycles most of the learnings from all these other frameworks was to optimize for the most user experiences to keep them engaged for a convoluted product where the user session needs to be transferred between views and made longer and longer In a world where most sites and services never needed to do that, and the current web3 ones that monetize well definitely don't need to, none of this complicated frontend (or associated backend) matters any more The only remaining relevant learnings from the past 10 years are responsive design for different screen sizes, CDNs for even more caching, and better auto deployments from version control updates