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Discussion on: Updating A 25-Year-Old Website

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GrahamTheDev

Just shows that we don't need the latest and greatest for everything. New site looks nice, is fast to load, gets to the point and follows a lot of best practices.

Recycling the old bits that still work is 10 times faster than rewriting everything and perhaps this could serve as a warning to the "new and shiny" brigade that you don't need to upgrade everything if it is still fit for purpose.

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Mads Stoumann

I agree, and I think we often re-invent the wheel in frontend.
The new and shiny is great for developers and the developer-experience, but for end users there's no noticable difference.
A “Product Card” is a “Product Card” for the end user, no matter if it was done in Classic ASP or React ;-)