Untitled Friend App Frontend

The Frontend today is a shattered wasteland. Hideous React code crawls across the desert in various states of deprecation and disarray. Vue promises clean components, and at least delivers stability, but is it worth it? To fight two sets of build tools? Constantly struggling to keep webpacker running? Running another Docker image, just to dynamically compile assets? We got rid of refreshing the page in our local web environments but at what cost?

This app lacks frontend structure. We use Bulma, and keep our styles simple. The server reliably renders every HTML pages regardless of the client's ability. But it lacks joy.

Okay, I'm tired of writing. The short of it is this: I hate React. Vue is only marginally better. Hotwire is new, and its lead dev is no longer being paid to maintain it. I don't want my life to be difficult. I work a 40-hour job, and whatever frontend hotness comes up in the next 5 years will collapse like a flash in the pan. I don't want to memorize a flash in the pan. I learned JQuery, Handlebars, Backbone, Angular, React, and now Vue. Y'all frontend devs can't make up your minds, and TypeScript is for suckers. JavaScript, but it's compiled? Please.

Fine. I want mobile views, and I want pretty messages and responsive forms for my users. But I'll learn whatever frontend this app eventually uses in my own time, and as little as possible. big sigh