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To me the biggest problem with web development is, not that it's too big. I feel the information is really disorganised. For instance, take most of the front-end projects; finding good documentation is a fool's errand. I think we as a community need to put more effort in to making our projects easier to understand, we need to bring the barrier to entry as low as possible, we need to stop making assumptions that everyone starting out with our projects are people with 5-6 years experience, help people figure out where to look for information related to our project. For example, a good project I really appreciate is, redux; the documentation that comes with the project is really amazing, I mean look at this,
https://github.com/rackt/redux/blob/master/README.md
They have put so much effort in to making their project really easy to understand. Don't get me wrong, I love googling for information and learning new things, but some projects are pure annoying when you are trying to understand them for a quick poc or a Saturday evening hack. We can't stop progress, its not fair if we ask others to pause progress just so we could catch up, just so it makes our jobs become easier. We are developers, we love experimenting, we love learning more, and we love making things work better, but lets improve on one little detail; lets help each-other out more. |