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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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’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…
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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And the outdated php tutorials persists.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.
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 used to keep up but eventually just burned out. I do plenty at work so if I do have a hobby project in mind, I tend to do something other than just webdev, to spite it up a little bit.
It does feel scary sometimes just how quickly you can get outdated, especially with frontend. I want to stick to backend but it feels like all the fancy jobs eventually end up with 90% work being on front, APIs and DB seem like the easiest part of it all (especially if managed properly)
