[thiscatis]

The best applications I delivered over the last couple of years were in Symfony 2 to 5. MVC with some jQuery sprinkled on top and it did the job. Want API because the company suddenly wants an app?

No worries, add the RESTbundle and now your controllers are returning JSON or XML rather than Twig rendered html.

Around 2014-2015 I was worried that I missed the Angular or Meteor or Knockout or Ember or something..JS boat but then quickly realised my customers didn't care about JS frameworks and wanted business flows automated and solved.

Now I see NextJS or something solving problems Symfony solved 10 years ago and I just chuckle.

[Zelphyr]

I read something once from an advertising executive and he said the biggest problem in that industry is that nobody knows the history of it. It's all about the latest, shiny, cool thing and nobody realizes they're repeating the mistakes of the past.

I feel like we're getting to the same point in software development. I'm seeing things presented as new that were done decades ago.

"JAMStack!" You mean, how we pretty much had to do things 20 years ago?