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Discussion on: Tell me an unpopular software opinion

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Brendan Cowley

Here's 2...

  1. Most "full stack" devs I've met/worked with can't write pure vanilla frond end (HTML, CSS, JS) correctly.
  2. Build your website in pure languages until you run into something you can't do without a library or framework.
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Dan Dascalescu • Edited

#2 is how I (re)learned the hard way why reinventing the wheel does suck, esp. when the wheel is authentication, caching, and keeping data in sync between the server and clients.

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Brendan Cowley

Right! But there is a startk difference between bringing in a few libraries to help out and loading in a framework to only use a fraction of the functionality.