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It‘s a kind of collective hallucination. It‘s affected me too. I just recently decided to go back in time and wrote a web app using Flask, all rendered server

It‘s a kind of collective hallucination. It‘s affected me too. I just recently decided to go back in time and wrote a web app using Flask, all rendered server side, with a minimum of JS and JSON endpoints for a bit of client-side interactivity (e.g. autocompleting an input field). Very fast, iterative work. No duplication of data classes, no weird caching issues… Felt like a breath of fresh air, sadly. Have we witnessed a full turn of the wheel?

JodieBenitez 2y ago
That's a good old case of "the right tool for the job". But let's be honest: the frontend dev rat race had the effect to make the base web technologies better. Better CSS (variables, nesting, effects, media support, etc), better JS (webcomponents), useful libs available as wasm and so on... all good things that can be used natively and allow us to make better MPAs.