It sure looks like we’re nearing the “peak Java Enterprise Edition” moment for frontend web development space. We got here honestly: Single Page Apps made “fat

It sure looks like we’re nearing the “peak Java Enterprise Edition” moment for frontend web development space. We got here honestly: Single Page Apps made “fat” clients possible in the browser, but that meant a lot of logic had to move to the front end, so they naturally became bigger and more complex. Meanwhile, we still want to have the “lazy installation” experience of browsing to a web page and having things load quickly, and this adds all sorts of complexity like bundle splitting, hydration, “edge” hosting, etc. I’m not sure where we go from here, complexity-wise, but here are some guesses: * no/low code will produce a new “ruby on rails” for the modern SPA space. (There are already contenders.) * increased environment complexity will move development into the cloud and off of our local machines. * there won’t be a sudden disappearance of the older approaches, just like SPAs didn’t kill RoR.