We need a new term for the business-opportunity wastage that modern front-end development has created. Maybe "ambush by JS"?
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Your team lovingly hand-crafted some package.json, webpack.config.js, .babelrc, etc. only to discover near launch that product is unusable
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I mean, sure, it feels fine on your iPhone over wifi, but the point of re-investing in the web was to reach a *larger* audience...hrmmm...
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I think...these things aren't related. Doing a bad job on frontend isn't caused by using web pack and babel
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this is just like all the terrible jquery garbage from ten years ago. People had no idea what their tools were actually doing
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but we probably agree on this. The problem is usually green teams with no experience doing their best and learning the hard way
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Working with many teams has been hugely eye-opening. PMs that carry only iPhones are always going to fail to expand their reach.
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interesting! never thought about the PM angle on this. Might explain why our customers are really worried about perf but hard to sell to PM
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