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[–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 51 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know how to React to this.

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] grimdeter@lemmy.ml 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think we all just need a different, Angular approach

[–] starman@programming.dev 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You might say he was very svelte

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[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 56 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Backend developer: "The new functionality is done!" PO: Looks at tests "Seems good, ship it!"

Frontend developer: "The new functionality is done!" PO: Looks at his screen "This spacing could be a little to the right, also I think I didn't really like this text, also it should probably auto-scroll to the top and this button should change colors when I click it and also don't forget to change the error messages I was happy with before and also I think it should......"

[–] ADTJ 12 points 7 months ago

Lol - POs looking at backend tests, as if

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 41 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Made the mistake of using react for a mobile app and my god why is it this convoluted, why are the error messages always along the lines of "something went wrong with networking 🤷"

Unfortunately I'm stuck with it now

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

react is better than the days when we jquery everything

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 8 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Am I the only one left writing pure JS webpages? I swear for the stuff I've done recently, adding React or even jQuery makes things 10x more complicated and bloated. The base JS support browsers have now is actually great. It's not like the old days trying to support every browser back to IE6

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

When you are writing some complex web app, you will wish you used a framework. Some web apps can have more than 50 pages with multiple states that depend on remote data to be locally cached and synced depending if you are online/offline. Framework can handle a lot of the heavy state management for you and even provide a nice UI component library. But I do agree that React is too much, but jQuery is being replaced by vanilla JS. That is why I usually use Vue. But for simple stuff, yes, Vanilla JS is pretty much good enough

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[–] NewDark@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Try writing your backend with browser limitations and see what kind of wild wrappers you make to keep yourself sane.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I remember the day of php files outputting html to the browser... it was 95% as functional as the stuff written in react and node today and incredibly simple.

Heck, at my company, I still sneak in old-school HTML files when I can.

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[–] notquitetitan@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

You mean NodeJS lol

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[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 25 points 7 months ago
[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 19 points 7 months ago (27 children)

You can write a stateless server. You can’t do stateless front-end since you have to deal with user interaction.

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[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I didn't read the community name and wondered who tf thought the back end of a goose requires more attention than the front end

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[–] Seigest@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 months ago

Often me. I make tools/interactions for learning management systems. So the back end is a thid party I have no controll over. Just take the api and make the magic happen.

You need me to save data somewhere but don't want to buy server space? Sure we can cram that into places it's not ment to go within the system. It will slow things down and likly cause issues but it's free.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago

That goose should be made mandatory in all customer meetings.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The proliferation of libraries that exist only to fix the problems introduced by making everything an SPA is hilarious. Everything in web tech from the last decade is basically “there was an old lady who swallowed a fly”*.

*see also Cloud and container DevOps

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I do think everything has its place. For example, you can do offline PWA with SPA since a page load doesn't need a call to the server for rendering it. It also saves processing time/bandwidth by offloading the server from the burden of rendering the page. Once the page has loaded, the web app only needs data, not markup nor style. And last is that it is great since it only requires a browser without needing to write native apps in myriad of languages. Distributing and installing it is also not limited by the Apple/Google tax.

For clouds, there are certain workflows that can surely benefit from it. Maintaining your own infrastructure 24/7 with minimal downtime can be overwhelming for SMALL teams, especially one man show. Even more so when the product/web apps suddenly blows in popularity and now need to scale. Even more so when it is being DDoSed. The point is, many things can go wrong. And when you are deploying it for 24/7 use, down times can be costly. Deploying to cloud early and then slowly building towards on-premise after the team gets bigger is a viable route IMHO

And last is container devops. I think it also solves a lot of problems in multi-tenancy or even when running multiple services. Not everyone will use the latest-and-greatest version of a shared library. If the library is somehow conflicting with other tenants/service, you will have a bad time. Also, developing inside a container or virtual env can make testing and messing around safer since you didn't affect your system installation.

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[–] sandman@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lol. I fucking hate websites that take up half the page with a navbar.

[–] mr_satan@monyet.cc 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or a page that uses only half the screen width in the center. Just use the damn screen!

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If that were true, you'd have more front end devs being able to do backend instead of the other way around.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

These are completely different types of skills. Front end is complex because there's an explosion of different states driven by how the user interacts with the UI. On the other hand, backend workflows tend to be a lot more structured. You get a request, do some processing, fetch some data, and return a response.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago (13 children)

From where I sit, it seems like frontend is closer to being a graphic designer than on backend.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Backend devs can do frontend?

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <p>Hello World</p>
  </body>
</html>

here i wrote you a frontend

[–] imgcat@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And yet it still works better than a MB of JS

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[–] justcallmelarry@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] frezik@midwest.social 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes. It'll look like a Geocities page, but yes.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Pah, as if Geocities had the good taste to use courier new.

Also, more seriously, if all the client needs is a geocities page is it reasonable for a front end developer to build it in react?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

As a backend person, lol no. I mean I can make a thing that works, but it will require eye bleach afterwards, and I'll hate every moment of building it.

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[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago
[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 7 months ago

I feel (as a fullstack developer) that letting websites run arbitrary code in your browser was a mistake.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago

Frontend devs are the perps and victims at the same time.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

As an infra guy... What's backend in this context?

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[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

É você que financia essa merda!

[–] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 7 months ago
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