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Top 5 Frontend Development Megatrends

Kevin Ball on March 21, 2019

It can feel overwhelming to be a web developer. Constantly trying to keep up, learning new frameworks, learning new language features, sometimes l...
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Sally

Wes Bos' Advanced React with GraphQL is a really nice way to touch upon a number of these areas in one go: you get Next.js, Prisma and Apollo, styled components, a bit of discussion and uses of reusable components (although knowledge along those lines assumed), and as the app is built, there's a lot to explore on the latency and rendering side of things. Even for a React dev, there'll be something new to try.

I learned to code in 2016-17 and was already starting to feel out of date - the course made me feel more confident in JS/React, but also more aware of the issues themselves rather than simply working in the stack I was employed in without question.

It's certainly made me want to delve more into moving away from Redux/Flux-style state management and the speed and simplicity offered by Next.js.

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Denis Anisimov

The whole read reminded me of Web Components and PWA Starter Kit

Fascinating what's already possible on the frontend and where it's going!

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Nina

Great thread! Really helps me out in what I'm aiming to learn next.

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Ben Halpern

Nice read