At work I'm working on seeing if we can port some of the React code over the simpler HTMX library. But between React and other complex tools I'm wondering if I can pull it off. It is just so confusing. You want a details/summary action? In React they built or used some library that uses divs to recreate it! You want to search for and add to a select element that can do multiple? Sure here's a really complex way to do it?
Why can't I use some simple web components to do that? <multi-select><option value=1>Whatever</option></multi-select>. That seems like a nice simple and elegant way to add that.
I just don't understand why front end devs make everything so complicated. I know complexity is needed sometimes. But React and other technologies make it much more difficult than it should be. All we are doing is serving simple forms for goodness sake! Yes, we want the forms to have some added benefits like searching in a long list of values for a multi-select form, but I don't need a whole framework to do that!
And after the front end devs left the company to make $50k+ elsewhere they leave this terrible mess. One coworker had asked, "Why is it doing that weird thing there?" Front end dev, "I have no idea!" Well, maybe if we went with simpler technology we would have an idea.
Simpler CSS too. Yes, I know we can't have my ideal CSS for my really simple web pages I make on my own. But we definitely don't need the complexity of some of these frameworks out there.
Anyways, I had to rant. I really don't like how complicated React has made the front end. Especially for business facing apps which are basically just forms. It isn't all that complex but we have made it super complex as a developer industry. For no reason that I can tell.
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At work I'm working on seeing if we can port some of the React code over the simpler HTMX library. But between React and other complex tools I'm wondering if I can pull it off. It is just so confusing. You want a details/summary action? In React they built or used some library that uses divs to recreate it! You want to search for and add to a select element that can do multiple? Sure here's a really complex way to do it?
Why can't I use some simple web components to do that?
<multi-select><option value=1>Whatever</option></multi-select>. That seems like a nice simple and elegant way to add that.I just don't understand why front end devs make everything so complicated. I know complexity is needed sometimes. But React and other technologies make it much more difficult than it should be. All we are doing is serving simple forms for goodness sake! Yes, we want the forms to have some added benefits like searching in a long list of values for a multi-select form, but I don't need a whole framework to do that!
And after the front end devs left the company to make $50k+ elsewhere they leave this terrible mess. One coworker had asked, "Why is it doing that weird thing there?" Front end dev, "I have no idea!" Well, maybe if we went with simpler technology we would have an idea.
Simpler CSS too. Yes, I know we can't have my ideal CSS for my really simple web pages I make on my own. But we definitely don't need the complexity of some of these frameworks out there.
Anyways, I had to rant. I really don't like how complicated React has made the front end. Especially for business facing apps which are basically just forms. It isn't all that complex but we have made it super complex as a developer industry. For no reason that I can tell.