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Ask HN: What task takes up 80% of your web development time but shouldn't?
Been analyzing my development workflow and noticed that certain tasks eat up disproportionate time:
- Context switching between IDE/browser/DevTools
- Debugging environment inconsistencies
- Reformatting code to match project conventions
Curious what repetitive tasks other developers face that shouldn't be so time-consuming in 2024.
Especially interested in hearing from React/Next.js developers.
- sibeliuss 2y agocmd + space + chatgpt desktop app = 80% of routine tasks are gone. its crazy
- watersb 2y agoProcrastination.
- jeffreygoesto 2y agoHaving left UI standards and trying to be an app.
- solardev 2y agoFor me it's the constant scaffolding of basic things, like setting up a parallelized rate limited fetch and merge across several paginated endpoints. Or setting up a basic Next plus MUI instance. I'm sure I could make a template or lib for it, I just haven't. ChatGPT gets me 80% of the way there every time but the last 20% is always a bit annoying. Wish there was an easier way to templatize a project for easy reuse, but with constant auto updating of the basic packages. Like a mini/meta Next/Vite of my own.