Comment by al2o3cr on 20/12/2024 at 00:54 UTC

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View submission: Is modern Front-End development overengineered?

Author left off step 0: "Somebody makes up requirements that users don't actually care about"

Think about the three things listed:

• "instant feedback" - arguable, but most SPAs just replace "page reloads" with "everything has a spinner". Especially fun when a site requires multiple async network calls to populate itself but they fail intermittently
• "live updates" - IMO I'd love to make a lot of sites STOP doing this; occasional notifications aren't worth nonsense like "a Jira tab left open bloats to 1GB in 24 hours"
• "offline support" - I may not be using the right apps, but who actually needs this? Pretty much every app I use is about manipulating remote information, so doing it offline

It's like if automotive engineers decided that cars needed to go Mach 1 and hold 10000 passengers and then lamented that "car design has gotten so complicated".

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Comment by valarauca14 at 20/12/2024 at 07:06 UTC

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"live updates" - IMO I'd love to make a lot of sites STOP doing this; occasional notifications aren't worth nonsense like "a Jira tab left open bloats to 1GB in 24 hours"

"*A new version of the website if avaliable would you like to update?*"

What do you mean, I'm on the last stage of a check out, no fuck off. Let me buy my stuff and leave.

click no, click checkout, website breaks, reloads from root, 4 items are now missing from your cart for no reason