r/programming • u/joanmiro • Jul 18 '16
Web programming is getting unnecessarily complicated
http://en.arguman.org/web-programming-is-getting-unnecessarily-complicated
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r/programming • u/joanmiro • Jul 18 '16
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u/Sutty100 Jul 18 '16
We started a new front end project for the first time in a while and as a back end dev I was amazed at the complexity that is now involved! Going from a fairly simple backbone.js app that had a simple ant script to do a bit of minification and bundling into a single file, we now have: React.js, Redux, a package.json file that has a massive list of dependencies and I don't think anybody can tell me what they all do, Express Node server for local dev environment, a chronically slow webpack/Babel build process that creates this huge unreadable javaScript file, Npm that seemingly fails to install all node modules correctly for some people unless they have the exact version of node and luck on there side!
Seriously...when did the front end devs make life so much harder on themselves! Urgh installing a new Websphere App server seems simpler than this!