I miss hand-writing webpages in Notepad and then FTP'ing them to the public_html directory on the server to make them live. The amount of infrastructure, libraries, build tools, pseudo-languages, etc layered on top of each other some developers/orgs use to make a simple form today is crazy to me. It also feels super fragile: deploy a website today, come back to it in 5 years to make some changes, and half the tools and libraries you need will be gone.
In 5 years? I think you misspelled weeks here.
Last six months with my last employer I spent immersed in the full Next, React, Prisma ecosystem. I swear that 80% of developers' time was wasted on fighting compatibility issues. Actual work happened in the small crevices of time left between endless stream of build breakages or chasing random bugs caused by changes in transitive dependencies.
My God, never again.
Next is the worst name for a JavaScript framework. It might as well be called "yet another JS framework." It's things like this that make me ponder self deletion. So much pointless work we create for ourselves.
It’s layers on top of layers on top of layers, etc.
I’m looking for a framework that compiles to web assembly to generate next.js to spit out react components that generate JavaScript that prints html.
In the era of Yarn, Bower, etc I was joking that we need package managers for package managers.
I just learned about Volta today...