Because if you ever want to contract a freelancer to maintain it or improve it, you'll easily find someone who understands plain HTML, CSS, JS.
I'm never sure if modern build tools are really helping us save time or if we just use them because the companies that built them have huge Marketing budgets.
When I first learned about GatsbyJS, I thought:
"Oh, that's cool, probably built by some developers in their spare time. I guess people are tweeting about it because it's really helping them."
But the reality was:
"Built by a for-profit company that raised over $46M from investors and spending a ton of money on Marketing and Twitter influencers."
Not criticizing them, it's a useful tool. But I can never be sure if the hype is real or faked.
The sad part is that such tools can really overcomplicate the development process, and make it less exciting for young folks to learn web development.
10 years ago, someone learning to code got their AHA moment when they made some JavaScript and CSS run in the browser.
And now, someone learning to code might get frustrated when some npm installation randomly fails and give up. Tutorials for beginners should still start with the basics.
20ish years ago I was so happy to write first for loop statement in php and see something prints on html. Your comment brings back that good moment back. Would stay all night excited just to learn what else I can do.
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That's such a practical approach.
Because if you ever want to contract a freelancer to maintain it or improve it, you'll easily find someone who understands plain HTML, CSS, JS.
I'm never sure if modern build tools are really helping us save time or if we just use them because the companies that built them have huge Marketing budgets.
When I first learned about GatsbyJS, I thought:
"Oh, that's cool, probably built by some developers in their spare time. I guess people are tweeting about it because it's really helping them."
But the reality was:
"Built by a for-profit company that raised over $46M from investors and spending a ton of money on Marketing and Twitter influencers."
Not criticizing them, it's a useful tool. But I can never be sure if the hype is real or faked.
The sad part is that such tools can really overcomplicate the development process, and make it less exciting for young folks to learn web development.
10 years ago, someone learning to code got their AHA moment when they made some JavaScript and CSS run in the browser.
And now, someone learning to code might get frustrated when some npm installation randomly fails and give up. Tutorials for beginners should still start with the basics.
so true...
20ish years ago I was so happy to write first for loop statement in php and see something prints on html. Your comment brings back that good moment back. Would stay all night excited just to learn what else I can do.