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The future of frontend development

Programming with Shahan on January 21, 2024

🥊Introduction: The environment of front-end development is changing dramatically, thanks to technological developments, artificial intel...
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Rense Bakker

Low-code is a hype that's already blowing over imho. It won't go away, but it won't get larger either. Unless you mean tools that help generate code for full-code applications, I expect those to get more traction especially as they get better with the help of AI.

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Programming with Shahan

Exactly.

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RioBrewster

Figma's own website illustrates the problem with low/no-code platforms.

You might be able to "create visually appealing and useful websites and applications." But most people do not have the design skills to do that. Anyone who has taken the time to learn basic coding skills should have at least and appreciation of what makes a website usable.

On Figma's site, it's impossible to find content with all the distracting comment bubbles popping in and out, I'm betting it would fail WCAG because of it. (Do you really want your website to possibly trigger an epileptic seizure?).

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Programming with Shahan

This is a great example of low- or no-code problems. But I believe it will be much better in the future as AI improves.

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RioBrewster

I'm not sure how. Good design is hard and there are far more examples of bad design out there. You probably aren't old enough to remember Geo-cities and MySpace, but trust me - the more non-professionals there are building websites, the worse it will get. If AI tools work by making inferences from large samples data, and there are more bad examples than good...

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Dave Brener

Low-code/no-code tools definitely have a place in terms of fast site iteration for small to medium-size business. Most clients I've encountered want a site that looks good and can be built very quickly for a fraction of the cost.

Will it replace traditional web devs? Not at all, but I do think it has a place in the industry.

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Programming with Shahan

Perfectly said. It can't replace traditional web devs........ YET.

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J Mac

There's also Frontend AI where you can build components online from prompts or images, and export the code as React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, HTML, Tailwind or CSS. It's free with no login required

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J Mac

That's a nice tool that's not replacing devs, but helping them (us)!

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Rohan Singhvi

Developers can try out Dualite as a design to code tool for reducing their redundant UI development work: bit.ly/DUALITE

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Programming with Shahan

This was useful. Thanks.

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rizbern

Low-code is a hype that's already blowing over imho. It won't go away, but it won't get larger either. Unless you mean tools that help generate code for full-code applications, I expect those to get more traction especially as they get better with the help of AI.

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Shiva

Promotion for figma, not useful

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Giovanni Proietta

polipo.io/blog/will-ai-take-over-f...

The real point is not whether AI is going to take over but mostly: which parts of our work are going to be automated and why.

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