Frontend Development Is Boring (And I Couldn’t Be Happier)

The frontend landscape hasn't drastically changed in quite a few years.

In fact...things have gotten somewhat boring nowadays. The code is old, stable, and secure.

And you know what? It's pretty damn great.

0:00 What do I mean?
1:30 React
3:20 Vue
4:48 Ember
5:03 Angular
5:31 Svelte
7:41 SolidJS
9:16 JS Fatigue
9:48 Rust
10:35 Wrap up

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[verynicehuman]

Now the innovation is happening on the bundler/meta-framework space like esbuild, swc, astro build, next.js, vite, parcel and the MPA vs SPA debate

[ugopalatucci]

Heii. Thanks. A really great video. Do you think that frontend developers'll be less and less in demand? Now i'm starting feeling like a senior in this field

[louuuuuu]

Another year has passed - what do you think now sir

[trenhago]

Hi Harry. Great video. What do you think about Blazor? Is Blazor boring?

[JeremyJaydan]

I feel like stability on the web is just based on dev standards & user expectations, the higher they are, the more unstable your codebase gets from trying to achieve it.

[jasonconover]

Without a commute during COVID, I completely stopped listening to frontend podcasts. I recently picked them back up, expecting to be WAY behind. Nope. Didn't miss much. Whew!

[rylaczero]

I see this as a sign of no innovation and lack of insight. I use a custom-built framwork built on top of React but I believe it would take time for developers of these framework to advance their theory before we see any major developments.

[hugodsa]

I find that for Harry boring equates to mature

[sealone]

Yeah that is true. React/Angular/Vue/etc are all data driven UI framework. UI changes based on data. However, I think mastering them is the difficult part. They can easily be misused and debugging rendering performance can be challenging.

[rtorcato]

It's a great time to learn SwiftUI. The way Apple used functional programming is amazing

[chiefdan]

I would try svelte but the long .svelte file extension is a turn off

[BobbyBundlez]

FINALLY THE MOMENT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR


LOL.

[hansschenker]

Harry rest is also past - there is now graphQL!

[mming_my]

Nope.

Jamstack, astro build, vite etc

But yea it has becoming more 'stable'

[badcatdesign]

Maybe. but CSS doesn't seem boring to me though. [ aspect-ratio, @supports, container queries, :is & :where, content-visibility, clamp(), marqueeX ] ok I made that last one up. :P Even image formats are moving a bit, no? AVIF

[margo]

I think there's a great difference of mindsets (likes and dislikes) between frontend and backend developers. After building, say, an ecommerce site with React (or Angular or Vue), a frontend guy would be raring to try his hands on horizontal (breath) projects such as dating site, cryptocurrency tracker, etc. While a backend guy would stop and reconsider what's lacking, and try vertical (depth) projects such as adding product recommendation, customer behavior analysis, etc.

[mikeeomega]

Frontend Development is so boring that the background of this video is also boring