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by rpgbr 376 days ago
The beauty of the web is that you can design sites as if we were in the 2000s. And they work fine!

I can't wrap my head over things like React, Next.js, Vue, Tailwind (styling web pages directly in the HTML!?)… still code HTML and CSS by hand, and it's fine. Better than ever have been.
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adregan 376 days ago
> The beauty of the web is that you can design sites as if we were in the 2000s. And they work fine!

I don’t know about you, but I’m not running flash like it’s the early 2000s.

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dentemple 376 days ago
I, for one, am happy that I'm no longer managing state across hundreds of independent jQuery values and making raw XHR calls to jsonp endpoints.
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bufferoverflow 376 days ago
I agree with you on Tailwind, but React/Vue solve the problem of creating complex webapps. If you write HTML and modify DOM manually with JS, it only works for relatively simple projects. As soon as it becomes complex, it becomes hard to track which JS code changes what DOM.

Another thing is maintability. Working with single-file components with state management systems is just a pleasure.

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