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by srdjanr 163 days ago
What else should you use for huge complex web apps?
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Keep the huge, complex business logic on the server whenever possible.

That doesn't work for webapps that are effectively entirely based on client side reactivity like Figma, though the list of projects that need to work like that is extremely low. Even for those style of apps I do wonder how far something like Phoenix LiveView might go towards the end goal.

maybe, just maybe, the browser is not always the best tool for the job
I think that there are more apps that are better off as web apps (cross platform and sandboxed) than not.
But I hired the whole react dev, so I’ll use the whole react dev!

/s

<3 if I don't see 15 new node modules and 3 CVEs by EOB today I'll replace you with a css architect and vibe-coding nft monkey by next week!