I’ve been dipping my toes into NextJS, Vercel, PlanetScale, and other serverless / edge providers, and there’s so many terms / concepts thrown my way that I feel overwhelmed a lot of the time.
I mean, I’m already a web developer well versed with React, and I love my SPA setup with Vite, so for others outside the web dev space, this must be a nightmare to keep up with.
Was curious to hear your thoughts on the rapidly evolving space of web dev.
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Nothing wrong with a bit of solid PHP, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!
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Yeah I remember trying people to convince it’d changed its ways when 7 came out, but alas the stereotype persists. Oh well, their loss! 🤓
And the outdated php tutorials persists. And the old Stackoverflow answers persists.
It was at least last time I had to update an old app past php 7 because Azure websites was dropping support.
About ten years ago, I was getting stressed out about it. Someone told me:
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Stick to what you know well, if it will do what you want the end user won’t care.
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If what you know won’t do what you want, find the thing that will do what you want and just focus on that. No need to go down a million rabbit holes.
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If your team is using something you don’t know, learn that and just focus on that and ask for help if you get lost.
I’ve found this advice to be extremely useful.
I’m managing some devs right now, one of whom is going really slowly. She’s determined to do her part of the project in React. I said to her “How comfortable are you in React.” She said “Not really, I’m totally new to it. I’ve used Angular in the past and React is really different.” I said “Why aren’t you doing your part of the project in Angular?” She had no good answer.
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Svelte is where the fun is 🙂
We have a guy doing svelte on my team and it looks great, I’m just hoping it’s not going to be a blocker down the road when we need more people. Is it popular these days?
Yes, even Apple has been hiring Svelte developers for 4 or so years
I do keep up with modern web development but that tends to be changes to things like CORS, client hints, things like that. I never used JavaScript and am never gonna start.
Development is much more simple and stable, and the user experience is far superior, when you cut out JavaScript.
When I start to feel overwhelmed, I just go check the Days since the last new JavaScript framework counter.
Usually calms me down.
I am, to a degree, but only because it is my job :)
Frontend has changed / is changing much more rapidly than backend, IMO.
I’m not a huge fan of this shift towards eng-driven dev-ops. I get why it’s happened, but infra has never been particularly interesting to me personally and I don’t enjoy owning that aspect of the stack.
I gave up when back in the day, we had like JQuery, AngularJS, Vue.js, React.js, and so forth and so I just stick with JQuery for better or worse for most of my professional career in ASP.Net Core development. (CDN alleviate the trouble of distributing JQuery and web browser would cache it, so I don’t put much stock on people claiming that it’s bloated or heavy.)
I often bring up that we just needed better GUI toolkit with a designer and to replace all of HTML/JS/CSS with just WebASM and WebGPU. Rather than supporting legacy crappy unholy trinity languages, we could push for “survival of the fittest” languages/tools to fill into this space.
I’m in a very similar boat as you, and I often feel frustrated with how much there is I’m not keeping track of. But I don’t really like coding side projects in my free time, so I just learn as deeply as I can about the frameworks my works teams are using. It tends to pay off insofar as people can usually tell that I’ve done research, so at the very least it helps me less less insecure…
Fireship on YouTube gives my regular dose of new frameworks and similar developments. Apart from that not really.
