Defending a disaster (modern frontend development rant)

"...when you didn't write them, and can't control them" <- this is every enterprise codebase ever. Any site with more than a single developer and 5 pages reaches this level of complexity. Strong disagree.

Coding with AI editors will only amplify this issue. AI loves to generate hundreds of unnecessary lines of code, and the new no-code natural language movement will lead to an unimaginable quantity of software bloat. But what do I know anyway, I am just a react dev who uses Cursor too.

The text highlighting in dark mode is funny as 😂

thanks for going through this as pushing back on the article still has a lot of value.

Thanks for the reaction. Seeing you React Andying anytime it's slightly criticized is the reason I'm subbed for.

In my experience a lot of frontend developers do not know CSS, they know how to style a specific item, but not a whole page. dealing with !importants sucks for sure, it is why i do recommend tailwind, since it is scoped just to itself overall, it makes things much easier overall, and being able to extend it for your style is awesome. I know ive seen pages with multiples of the same class doing ther same thing, and the same class doing different things, both sucks. CSS is definitely not as simple as people think, but it is also quite amazing what it can do with such simplistic rules

The only sponsorship ads I watch from a Youtuber is Theo period

The jQuery section cracked me up, honestly thought it was a joke at first when the article mentioned it has everything 😅

we've had server side rendering since day 1. when content matters (seo, etc) -use robust server side rendering, do some jquery. when data sheningans matters -use client side react

Oh no, I thought it was an understatement that modern web devs don't know how to hide stuff with css until Theo did a 5 minute rant confirming that he doesn't know how to do it without tailwind 😅