Wow, very interesting read! I remember when I decided to become a web developer I just took a course on html/css/javascript. One night, after finishing in my laptop a website for my last assignment in a web dev class (a shitty one) I felt so proud of having become a web developer in such a short time. Next morning I decide to check my masterpiece on my desktop monitor to find out, to my horror, that all the elements had shifted. Fixed everything, then checked it on my laptop. The website looked whacked on my laptop now. After a quick google search, I found something called "responsive web design". That day I realized how little I knew and that there was an even bigger mountain to climb in front of me.
I'm glad I stuck out with web development. The new technologies are wonderful but sometimes I miss the simplicity.
It was the same for me. I used to design websites with Photoshop and at some point i have learned how to code it with HTML, CSS and JS with jQuery. Life was simple and fun. You could make something that works (and you can still) over night.
I remember it was okay to use CMS's and there was no problem using jQuery to speed up development. But at some point. Everything that helps the developer to code less, cleaner and faster it is the devil to JS community.
Today, over-engineering is priced and i'm (maybe) too old to understand why. I do not understand why jQuery is wrong, i do not understand why PHP is wrong, i do not understand why i need to use react, angular, flutter, vue or whatever is trend this week to make a simple three pages website for a local bakery.
I'm too old at 27 years old to understand what the hell is going on with web development these days.
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Wow, very interesting read! I remember when I decided to become a web developer I just took a course on html/css/javascript. One night, after finishing in my laptop a website for my last assignment in a web dev class (a shitty one) I felt so proud of having become a web developer in such a short time. Next morning I decide to check my masterpiece on my desktop monitor to find out, to my horror, that all the elements had shifted. Fixed everything, then checked it on my laptop. The website looked whacked on my laptop now. After a quick google search, I found something called "responsive web design". That day I realized how little I knew and that there was an even bigger mountain to climb in front of me.
I'm glad I stuck out with web development. The new technologies are wonderful but sometimes I miss the simplicity.
It was the same for me. I used to design websites with Photoshop and at some point i have learned how to code it with HTML, CSS and JS with jQuery. Life was simple and fun. You could make something that works (and you can still) over night.
I remember it was okay to use CMS's and there was no problem using jQuery to speed up development. But at some point. Everything that helps the developer to code less, cleaner and faster it is the devil to JS community.
Today, over-engineering is priced and i'm (maybe) too old to understand why. I do not understand why jQuery is wrong, i do not understand why PHP is wrong, i do not understand why i need to use react, angular, flutter, vue or whatever is trend this week to make a simple three pages website for a local bakery.
I'm too old at 27 years old to understand what the hell is going on with web development these days.