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And where would you meaningfully deploy a VB form other than your personal computer? Likewise, you don't need to deploy react at all if you are running it local

And where would you meaningfully deploy a VB form other than your personal computer? Likewise, you don't need to deploy react at all if you are running it locally, just npm start. You can even print to PDF from the browser. You can use LocalStorage for persistence. Feature for feature, it approaches a local VB and Access project for about the same effort. I've taught many beginner students with this technique. My point was not that modern deployment is easy. Nor that modern react with all the trimmings is easy. My point was that the nostalgic view of VB is reductive and skips all the things we now consider essentials. And for the effort involved, we get much more done now than ever before, albeit at a much greater complexity cost and steeper learning curve.

taeric 3y ago
I'm mostly with you on this, in that running `npm run start` or whatever feels close. However, it doesn't give you the state management in near the same way. Nor does it have anything close to the form builders that you could use back when. Things can feel similar, if you ignore all of the other tooling that we had back then. Dreamweaver was surprisingly close for building a form or similar. We tossed a lot out the window when we decided to focus on the HTML side of that equation. I swear it is like a lot of the older assembly versus C that existed years ago. Only, we decided that we did, in fact, care about the assembly.