[turbinerneiter]

> For instance, I spend the past two days working on a single CSS file, in an attempt to center-align some stupid buttons (a futile attempt, since they are still not aligned). In comparison, at the beginning of the project, I built out the entire REST backend of the web app in a single afternoon.

It could be argued that the value of the REST backend is lower than the value of the stupid buttons: since the backend is so simple, everybody can do it, while the stupid button takes a wizard to get right. On the market, your commoditized REST backend will have to compete with other solutions on the quality of your stupid buttons.

Hence, spend even less time on the backend, by using auto-generators, and focus all your time on the button. Buttons are a big dollar business.

Damn, I wish a had a CRUD-auto-generator-business, this would be the perfect plug. Check out auto-crud-button-focus.com right now!

/edit: adding the [irony] tag before I get more insulted "WHAT???!?!?!?"s (I know nothing about backend stuff, I work in embedded and electronics)

[pbourke]

> It could be argued that the value of the REST backend is lower than the value of the stupid buttons: since the backend is so simple, everybody can do it, while the stupid button takes a wizard to get right.

Yeah, or the first piece of sushi that a classically-trained French chef makes should probably go in the dog’s bowl.

[nradov]

It's sad how we've actually gone backwards in front-end developer productivity relative to what we had 20 years ago in Visual Basic. The gains in ease of distribution are certainly worth something but still it's disappointing how little progress we have made.

[brabel]

> since the backend is so simple, everybody can do it, while the stupid button takes a wizard to get right

What?!?!?!

[dredmorbius]

That was, as the saying goeth, the joke.