Back then, people fell in love with GMail and suddenly everyone thought they were building another GMail. This wasn't true. Most people were building an app with a couple of forms, a datagrid and maybe 2 highly interactive pages.
PHP, Python & Ruby frameworks gave perfect support for all this >10 years ago. You had jQuery plugins you added to page in 30 minutes and you had validation. In 2 hours you had a datagrid. Autocomplete, datepicker, things like this was no problem.
It was a form of egoism all the time.
Coding Sign In page was work for less than an hour. Now, in React, it's 2 days.
Look at developers now and compare them with senior devs a decade ago. My estimate is that development today is 4 times slower. Given a growth of salary at least 50%, a system back then in MySQL, jQuery, Django or Zend Framework for $40,000 is now $240,000 in React with GraphQL, Mongo, etc.
It's my observation as someone who leads developers well over a decade.
Development just got way more expensive, slower to get app-like feel. All this when >80% of pages in almost any webapp could be server-side rendered without big (or any) sacrifice of user experience.
It's so tiresome. I hate Go but you don't see me bringing it up every time someone mentions it. For some reason it's irresistible, I guess because they know the choir will like the sermon.
You can actually measure the amount of dollars a language / framework / tools generates in real business applications by looking at how hated it is on HN.
Back then, people fell in love with GMail and suddenly everyone thought they were building another GMail. This wasn't true. Most people were building an app with a couple of forms, a datagrid and maybe 2 highly interactive pages.
PHP, Python & Ruby frameworks gave perfect support for all this >10 years ago. You had jQuery plugins you added to page in 30 minutes and you had validation. In 2 hours you had a datagrid. Autocomplete, datepicker, things like this was no problem.
It was a form of egoism all the time.
Coding Sign In page was work for less than an hour. Now, in React, it's 2 days.
Look at developers now and compare them with senior devs a decade ago. My estimate is that development today is 4 times slower. Given a growth of salary at least 50%, a system back then in MySQL, jQuery, Django or Zend Framework for $40,000 is now $240,000 in React with GraphQL, Mongo, etc.