The article is a bit too bitter for my taste, but I agree with most of it. Except for the developer experience improvement these frameworks supposedly offer, I don’t even buy that.
For over a decade it seems to me the industry has been enamored with crazy complex solutions to problems that mostly don’t exist. I keep reading their proposals in dismay and basically chugging along with almost the same stack as before. Clients are as happy as ever.
I tried to show (here and elsewhere) that, for instance, PHP/MySQL + HTML/CSS/VanillaJS is faster, easier to read and write than React/Angular/FrameworkDuJour, but we seem to live in different worlds. I still think jQuery was the biggest improvement in frontend development quality of life and hasn’t been matched since.
I’ve mostly resigned to believe that React and friends are maybe great for hiring, being hired, manage teams. Actual coding is another discussion altogether.
For over a decade it seems to me the industry has been enamored with crazy complex solutions to problems that mostly don’t exist. I keep reading their proposals in dismay and basically chugging along with almost the same stack as before. Clients are as happy as ever.
I tried to show (here and elsewhere) that, for instance, PHP/MySQL + HTML/CSS/VanillaJS is faster, easier to read and write than React/Angular/FrameworkDuJour, but we seem to live in different worlds. I still think jQuery was the biggest improvement in frontend development quality of life and hasn’t been matched since.
I’ve mostly resigned to believe that React and friends are maybe great for hiring, being hired, manage teams. Actual coding is another discussion altogether.