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Discussion on: The Front-End Development we’re used to is dying

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Stephen Metcalfe • Edited

I'm torn. On the one hand I get the comments about frontend devs not falling away. On the other hand as a full stack developer with decades of experience - and with one hand in the pie that is HTMX - I totally get the impression that we might be moving back to a simpler time. HTMX and a lightweight js library like stimulus or Alpine do the same for most applications as react or angular, without the bloat.

I tend to believe that while our js frameworks aren't going away (same for the jobs around those frameworks), I also think that there may well be a move towards server side rendering of plain HTML. As I said - for most web apps, particularly internal apps - they do the job, and they deliver on speed of development. In this day and age, that is critical.