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by torginus 21 days ago
I'm not an expert, but I do ship frontends that muggles (the public) get to see, and my understanding is that frontend is like the yellow brick road in the Wizard Of Oz - if you don't veer of a small set of okayish best practices, then you can deliver a pretty good experience with a small set of boring and established libraries. But if you start interacting with FOTM amazing frontend frameworks of today (or even worse, of yesterday), have to cater for the weird quirks and preferences of other devs who do things in a very particular way, or 'ingenious' hacks and weird stuff held together by hopes and dreams and duct tape, the complexity and the number of ways these worlds can interact rises exponentially.