I do like the ideas of webapps - that webapps can connect other services together or able to create 1 platform for "every" device.
Ah, The Platform.The web development ecosystem is constantly evolving because The Platform is also constantly evolving. I’m not saying that all of the churn is strictly necessary or what it’s not overwhelming, especially to beginners, and especially in hindsight. The churn is in response to the fact that managing a development ecosystem for The Platform is a hard and impermanent problem to solve. New solutions come about to address the complexity, but those have their own complexity that will eventually be addressed by another new solution. This can be frameworks and libraries, languages and tools, or alternative “platforms” altogether. The reality is, most of the solutions available today are fine in their own respects. Plenty of real, production software is built on these technologies, even the “outdated” ones. Try out some solutions. Pick one that clicks with you. Build your thing. You’ll learn valuable concepts. A lot of it will be transferable or analogous to other solutions you encounter in the future. |