Paul Day
Paul Day
Aug 26, 2017 · 1 min read

Good stuff! React is definitely winning the frontend mindshare, Next I feel is going to be around for a while because it removes a lot of the pain of configuring React. But you never know with JavaScript…

My only thing is I’m careful about getting on the hype train around some of this stuff. The new paradigm this year seems to be “I don’t need a server”. This is mostly to benefit cloud providers, whose business models depend on us not knowing how to setup web services and servers ourselves.

Is data fetching from endpoints really a headache for developers? That’s a bill of goods that is being sold… Building servers with routes seems like a basic part of our jobs. I would rather complain about the over-proliferation of tooling in the JavaScript ecosystem, most of which doesn’t seem to solve any real problems and reinvents the wheel.

Last year, we were all about Express and Node JS — heralding them as rapid developer technologies, and easy to setup. Every bootcamp teaches these… This year we’re all afraid of servers, routing, middleware, endpoints… I don’t get it, it seems like a regression to me.

That’s my little rant. Great post. I’m personally on board with the RNG stack lol. Just some things to think about.

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