Web Development Is Getting Too Complex, And It May Be Our Fault
Web Development Is Getting Too Complex, And It May Be Our Fault
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 alr...
Shit. You might be right, but I really thought it was caused by elephants.
Web Development Is Getting Too Complex, And It May Be Our Fault
No shit. Start by removing all pre-processors, "compilers" and other bullshit and things might get decent again. We don't need those anymore in ES6/7 what we need is decent frameworks that do things natively instead of relying on compilation.
Honestly I don't see it as more complex than the backend in that regard. There's an unlimited choice of languages and within those frameworks.
In fact less so as there's only a handful of languages for the front end.
In my experience once it's setup building is often a single command.
When working on large projects with many developers they in fact make life a lot easier imo.
Ya think?
Whose fault would it be otherwise?
There's a cat parasite that gets in humans and may make them more self centered and aggressive. It may also compel us to create new JS frameworks with complex compilation steps.
But seriously the point is unless you have a large Dev team working on large projects the benefits are minimal. So we are choosing to complicate our projects for little gain.
When the author says "our" they mean Joe and Jane web dev. Some other groups they consider as possible sources of complexity are standards bodies, large tech companies, and increasing user expectations.
Well, somewhat. Even back in the early 2000s as a student, it was possible to make a (hideous) CMS out of Java Server Pages and similar technology. You've always been able to over-engineer a website.