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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Nobody has made a good web app yet; how would we know what to standardize on?
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You can see some of it coalescing: there's basically three major frameworks with a long tail of also-rans. All use the same package manager
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Each in a distinct cultural role: Angular, like J2EE was, is the "corporate" choice; React, like Rails, is the "hipster" choice
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1000 Years of COBOL Retweeted Pinboard
I'm glad this conversation was in good faith; woulda felt like an idiot if you had totally ignored everything I saidhttps://twitter.com/pinboard/status/866607139376300034 …
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I found your explanation helpful. I’m not sure why you assume I ignored you
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