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A Rant about Front-end Development (blog.frankmtaylor.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by fasterandworse@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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A masterful rant about the shit state of the web from a front-end dev perspective

There’s a disconcerting number of front-end developers out there who act like it wasn’t possible to generate HTML on a server prior to 2010. They talk about SSR only in the context of Node.js and seem to have no clue that people started working on this problem when season 5 of Seinfeld was on air2.

Server-side rendering was not invented with Node. What Node brought to the table was the convenience of writing your shitty div soup in the very same language that was invented in 10 days for the sole purpose of pissing off Java devs everywhere.

Server-side rendering means it’s rendered on the fucking server. You can do that with PHP, ASP, JSP, Ruby, Python, Perl, CGI, and hell, R. You can server-side render a page in Lua if you want.

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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

as a developer my favourite thing about react componentisation is how it makes me and my team more readily replaceable

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

fuck, this quip’s better than my seeing-red rant

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I love when someone argues against something that is arguing against everything they use in their argument

[–] self@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I checked and they do the “well maybe it’s ok in your personal projects” bit a lot, which is very funny because the code for my personal projects usually isn’t garbage

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago

That's such a weird notion. My personal projects are the cutest, most groomed pieces of code I write, cause I do it out of my own volition. The code at work? Just any shite that passes the review so that I don't have to look at that codebase or think about it lest eldritch worms consume my sanity.