An overwhelming number of frameworks and tooling available today gives the impression that web development has gotten perhaps too complex. Juan Diego Rodríguez explores if web development really is that complex and, most importantly, how we can prevent it from getting even more difficult than we already perceive it to be.
One of the worst summaries I’ve ever seen, it is not a summary, it is a rephrasal of the first four paragraphs of the “proper” text.
The article itself is not great and has tons and tons of “water”.
After reading the word “framework” exactly 48 times in this article, can we now say the web is getting too complex?
If the author didn’t beat around the bush for so long and written a laconical piece that contained the word only, let’s say, 12 times, then the complexity would sure seem not that much of an issue.
And that was only a half-joke. The author is one of those people who can’t look past their own field of expertise. The history moves in spirals. Even Hegels saw that back hundreds of years ago. We will see websites get more bloated, then we will see them get minimised, but on the next qualitive stage. Then it will move towards getting more complicated, again, but this time getting new qualities etc.
More over, right now we are at a stage, where the development gets less complicated. We see more people raise awaraness about the size of your website, people start switching from CSS preprocessors to vanilla, newbies don’t start learning DOM manipulation with jQuery but rather with vanilla JS etc.
This article is a 20 minute rant about how he sees some beginners choose wrong tools for the job. Absolutely not worth the read, and I have a strong suspection most of the upvoters here didn’t bother with the whole post. Otherwise, they would have seen how mediocre it is.
One of the worst summaries I’ve ever seen, it is not a summary, it is a rephrasal of the first four paragraphs of the “proper” text.
The article itself is not great and has tons and tons of “water”.
If the author didn’t beat around the bush for so long and written a laconical piece that contained the word only, let’s say, 12 times, then the complexity would sure seem not that much of an issue.
And that was only a half-joke. The author is one of those people who can’t look past their own field of expertise. The history moves in spirals. Even Hegels saw that back hundreds of years ago. We will see websites get more bloated, then we will see them get minimised, but on the next qualitive stage. Then it will move towards getting more complicated, again, but this time getting new qualities etc.
More over, right now we are at a stage, where the development gets less complicated. We see more people raise awaraness about the size of your website, people start switching from CSS preprocessors to vanilla, newbies don’t start learning DOM manipulation with jQuery but rather with vanilla JS etc.
This article is a 20 minute rant about how he sees some beginners choose wrong tools for the job. Absolutely not worth the read, and I have a strong suspection most of the upvoters here didn’t bother with the whole post. Otherwise, they would have seen how mediocre it is.