I look at the web today. Not as a programmer, but as a user of broken sites that are unable to obey the most basic rules of navigation and usability, terribly slow despite the hardware progresses. And I can only think that modern frontend development has failed.
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Bloated UI code expanded into better hardware and bandwidth to fill it.
It's sad that the biggest resource hog I run each day is usually my browser.
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And all the resources are used to display the same text and forms and interactions we already had 20 years ago. It does not even became more costly in order to give us more.
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? you mean the fact that browsers allow tens and tens of unrelated to each other js script to run for the sake of tracking and/or advertising?
That's not React or Webpack fault (I think that's where you're pointing the finger to)
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I think it's to do with culture around web programming. An SQL DBA will be looking at their DB in a decades time, they have to make sure everything is good. Web Devs on the other hand for years never needed to support anything, just build the site, deliver to client and move on.
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this is the tech industry that failed the web. churning developers at unsustainable pace, focusing on short term gains, growth hacking, milking users of their data, never having time for expertise to do its thing.
we merely adapted.
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Yep, the web started to degradate terribly when the technologies started to be imposed by single big companies.
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Like Gatsby? 😋 SSGs started out simple but now they're mountains of complexity. (Some are holding the line and staying lean… to name a few)
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