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I think it's generally caused by a few issues: 1. UI development is hard to do well. Throughout my career I've seen complexity explosions in C++/Win32, C#/WPF,

I think it's generally caused by a few issues: 1. UI development is hard to do well. Throughout my career I've seen complexity explosions in C++/Win32, C#/WPF, and JS UIs so this isn't a new phenomenon 2. It's always easy to develop the correct UI in hindsight once all the requirements are known. When starting out it's hard to know what will be needed or not and this leads to overly complex solutions 3. The browser as a platform has historically been painful to use due to a lack of good standard library 4. JS in particular has a low barrier to entry, so a lot of folks start there and learn as they go. This leads to picking the wrong tool for the job due to lack of experience

arcturus17 4y ago
> 1. UI development is hard to do well. Throughout my career I've seen complexity explosions in C++/Win32, C#/WPF, and JS UIs so this isn't a new phenomenon The people who complain about current front-end complexity are almost always back-end devs or people who don't touch front-end. However, almost every veteran dev who has developed UIs across many media and environments repeats your point.
prettyStandard 4y ago
Long time front end developer here. This is pretty accurate. I would rank your issues a little differently though. I think what's different here from other front end development are items 4 and 3. So 4, 3, 1, 2; I guess.