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I was just building a very light version of this today. I'm just a backend developer sick of the bloated crap I have to maintain in my day job with React. I'm g

by eloff 4y ago

I was just building a very light version of this today. I'm just a backend developer sick of the bloated crap I have to maintain in my day job with React. I'm going old school, and going back to server side templates. Native compiled jinja2 templates using askama in Rust, tailwindcss, Postgres, and a little JavaScript magic to do things like server side form validation without refreshing the entire page. I'm loving it so far. The pages load instantly, they're extremely lightweight, and all the state is on the server where it's easy to debug and all strongly type checked with Rust. I called my little "framework" curmudgeon, because, well I'm under no illusions about what I'm doing. Get off my lawn with those SPA JavaScript frameworks.

tartoran 4y ago
It’s wonderful to build this for yourself. However, when working on our larger projects or with larger teams, they’d have to learn all the random things you came up with, in your own way of thinking and so on. That doesn’t go well sometimes but sometimes it does work out. But if you leave the project, your favorite creation could become a newcommer’s nightmare that being a reason why we need to standardize quite a bit. If someone had to maintain your code, would they feel the same way you do about the code you hate maintaining now? If the answer is a resounding no then you most likely are on the right path.
- eloff 4y ago
  It's literally a hundred lines of JavaScript, they'd take more time to learn the changes in a point release of React. I think it's a non issue. But the bigger thing is it's just for me, because I'm the only one working on it right now. If the project is successful and I hire people one day, they'll put up with it because I'm the boss :) Meanwhile I'll enjoy working on frontend again, something that hasn't happened in years.
  - tartoran 4y ago
    Nice. Keep up then! Stay simple and nimble

by eloff 4y ago

tartoran 4y ago

It’s wonderful to build this for yourself. However, when working on our larger projects or with larger teams, they’d have to learn all the random things you came up with, in your own way of thinking and so on. That doesn’t go well sometimes but sometimes it does work out. But if you leave the project, your favorite creation could become a newcommer’s nightmare that being a reason why we need to standardize quite a bit. If someone had to maintain your code, would they feel the same way you do about the code you hate maintaining now? If the answer is a resounding no then you most likely are on the right path.

eloff 4y ago
It's literally a hundred lines of JavaScript, they'd take more time to learn the changes in a point release of React. I think it's a non issue. But the bigger thing is it's just for me, because I'm the only one working on it right now. If the project is successful and I hire people one day, they'll put up with it because I'm the boss :) Meanwhile I'll enjoy working on frontend again, something that hasn't happened in years.
- tartoran 4y ago
  Nice. Keep up then! Stay simple and nimble