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What is the boring technology for frontend development?
by philippta 3y ago
What is the boring technology for frontend development?
- LAC-Tech 3y agoThe one you know the best.
- somesortofthing 3y agoThough it was far less clear when this article was written than it is now, if you're starting from scratch on a webapp today it's hard to go wrong with React.
- em-bee 3y agothere are a lot of voices against react too, so i would be careful. react is a good choice in that its downsides are well known and documented, so at least you can make an informed choice. but i would cast a wider net and look at svelte, vue and angular as well. personally i use aurelia, but it being less popular means that less people write about it so there may be hidden downsides. i am already familiar with it which is sufficient to qualify as boring for me. and i am also solving boring problems which allows me to spend my innovation tokens on my tech stack.
- petepete 3y agoHTML and CSS. Boring, reliable, accessible, extendable. Only reach for JavaScript when it's actually required - which is less often than the modern web would suggest.
- shepherdjerred 3y agoThis is not at all what the article is advocating for.
- shepherdjerred 3y agoReact and Vue probably qualify as a boring tech, but you could also use traditional server-rendered apps, e.g. with Java, php, etc., with jQuery on the client side.