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darkmaian23 posted...

I feel old, but I'm really not digging the way modern web development works. When I was first working on my computer science degree, the switch to everything--including desktop apps--actually being a web app hadn't happened yet. HTML, CSS, and JS have all advanced considerably, but JS is still a shitty language and the advancements don't mean as much when every front end and back end are hiding thicc node-modules folders that you need to support the shocking number of libraries needed to make anything, all of which do things differently.

When Microsoft invented WPF and XAML to create desktop applications, it was almost universally panned for being hard to write and understand. But compared to the experience of learning to create a modern front-end in React with redux-toolkit, it's nothing at all. Maybe if you use a paid solution the experience gets smoother, but I was shocked at how fiddly and unintuitive it is to create even a small, attractive page in React.

There's.... a lot of overhead in any modern web framework, and the documentation is always trash. That being said. The problems these frameworks solve, they solve very well, but you have to do a fun paradigm shift to operate their way. Dev sucks, yo.