Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by hilyen 1366 days ago
I look forward to new frameworks being easier to use and helpful. These new Frontend frameworks, React, Vue, Svelte, just made things 100 times more complicated. Sure they're useful for SPA's and certain use cases, but the majority of the web doesn't need to be over-engineered to the nth degree. I laughed hysterically when I learned Google wouldn't spider content properly on SPAs. Then laughed again when they had to build another app, such as Next, or Nuxt, just to do so.
1 comments

It helps to be a bit more nuanced. I hate JS' guts, mind, you but even I know that Svelte makes things easier and more predictable.

That almost everything on the frontend is over-engineered, I don't think any reasonable programmer would disagree with. It's true.

But since people are stuck with HTML, CSS and JS they try hard to make it more manageable. Pieces of tech like HTMX and Svelte improve the status quo. Not everything is bad in there.

...That still doesn't mean I want to do frontend work though, heh.