From the outside, front end development in 2017 looks pathologically overcomplicated. Is this a fair perception? If so, why is it happening?
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Mine is in some ways, i.e. dependency management in js is a nightmare comparable to "dll hell" without some of these tools.
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Or even modularisation of components etc is really hard to achieve in vanilla javascript. There's a reason why this stuff gets adopted!
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yeah it is. Been teaching students React for the last couple years — create-react-app and ESLint and Prettier have made it so much better
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you just gotta wait for the second generation of tools, which people make after they’re fed up with the first generation’s attempt
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My life is! An increased learning curve makes for happier, productive lives when you're used to it.
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Lives of users of well-made apps are. The churn comes from trying to make meeting super-high bar of user expectations less impossible.
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You can't speak for everyone. Once you get over the initial "JS fatigue" snark, the tooling is getting more and more convenient.
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I started coding (I'm a product designer) around the time Node started to become popular and I'm working on web apps now.
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