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Discussion on: How do I keep up with frontend world

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Luke Duncan

I'm a bit torn - because I completely agree that the state of UI and frontend frameworks is a bit bloated. But I think this is a great article just to help you guide the frontend world and just to keep up with it - you don't need to spend hours reading through and following everyones advice.

But a lot of the frontend stuff you see coming out and that you have to keep up with - large large companies come up with these ideas and implement them at the biggest scale you can probably have. E.g. React with Facebook.

But I definitely agree, it's probably not ideal for small startups just starting out to engage in these frontend frameworks and fancy ideologies because they have no product market fit, need to move fast and these things are truly in their infancy.

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Vuild • Edited

I am being dramatic on purpose of course. The snarks are engagement triggers as I state, it works, we are "method commenting" to increase the activity on this post so more people see it & it doesn't disappear. Because it is good. I don't mind looking foolish to keep it on the homepage.

Many of the big sites did not get big because of their UI.

Most of their successes were acqui-hires. Most of their products are spyware powered not UI. All have substantial bugs.

With respect to UI
alexa.com/topsites look through the top 500 sites. White bg, dark text, blue links, left aligned (on L-R languages), adult sites inverse. All simple, all closer to HTML than the rest of the industry. 90% of startups fail. We are now 90% mobile. The vast majority of UI is over-done. It always was, even mine.

Anyone is free to do or think whatever you want but very few people actually address UI in a bigger or realistic context.

I think Yaser is smart & right, this article is good. I genuinely appreciate the effort & will read it in full (in parts). That's why I engaged (thanks)

I opened with "Dissenting voice" to be one (rather than am one). I think both things at once: read a lot, but do first & then you know who knows otherwise you implement wrong.

Luke, your balanced & accurate perspective is appreciated (thanks).

It's not how we get this post to 200 comments though. Editing my comment above to make Truong look bad is 👀. Oh UI...

Just kidding Truong, also you are right & I agree with you. Seriously.

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Luke Duncan

Let the games begin between you and Truong haha!

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Vuild

The great UI wars of 2019 began on Dev.to but spread virally through all platforms. No one remembers what life was like before those tragic times but they speak of a flash & lots of tables. A holy grail, now lost in a maze of grids. King Truong has ruled for millennia.

Nowadays, AI creates all UI from realtime global feedback loops sorted by ML. If we stop clicking the electricity goes off & the Internet disconnects. I am not sure how much longer I can continue for so this may be it for me in this tiny comment box.

Off. Line.

Pick a side Luke. The answer is in you. The force is strong. You are our only hope.