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Discussion on: 7 Technologies I'm Excited about in 2021

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thanks for the overview! I haven't looked into low code possibilities, I even didn't know "low code" is a thing. This sounds very interesting to me.

I am currently revisiting my past experiences in web dev and try to figure out things I could do better:

concerning Meta-Frameworks: I think Next is on its way to becoming unbeatable because there's this sort of unique value proposition that Vercel offers, where they build deep integrations with their edge network (i18n routing, analytics/real experience score, incremental static generation, dynamic image optimization). I've been using Gatsby since I found it was the best option in mid-2019, but right now, I would prefer Next. The app quality you can achieve with it as a single developer or with a small team is actually quite unbelievable.

concerning new frameworks (libs): I am totally amazed by everything that Poimandres does. zustand and jotai are what useState in React should actually be, there are react-spring and react-use-gesture for beautiful and complex UI patterns and it just goes on and on with further awesome things. I think they bring what FP is actually about - things being composable - to frontend development in a way that actually enables one to build products. I believe that if beginners would be taught those libs right away, they would feel like they had superpowers and could build really nice things after a fairy short learning period. Much better than "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors" :D