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I've been a webmaster for 25 years and never had to learn JS. The vast, vast majority of websites on the internet could have been designed by someone like me wh
by markdown 4y ago
I've been a webmaster for 25 years and never had to learn JS. The vast, vast majority of websites on the internet could have been designed by someone like me who doesn't know JS.
Everything is already in a framework or library, and copypasting a few lines of code from the readme/howto is enough to add a slideshow, accordion menu, or whatever other snazzy but terrible UI gimmick that clients want.
The proportion of websites on the internet that actually need React are close to zero (most sites are cms/crud instead of "real" web apps), yet if you're in the web dev sphere, everything everyone else is building seems to need it. Strange.
- s__s 4y agoThe zero-knowledge, copy/paste frontend development you’re describing is a big part of why so much of the web is such a bloated mess. It’s certainly not React or other FE frameworks that are the problem. At least not in and of themselves.
- markdown 4y ago> why so much of the web is such a bloated mess. Citation needed. IMO most of the bloat comes from ad networks and tracking.
- heavyset_go 4y agoI agree with all of this, yet I can't in good faith tell others who are looking to get a job in this field that they don't need to learn JS, React etc. Most employers are basically only hiring React devs for the front end, to build projects that really don't need it. I'm not a fan of it, but it is what it is.