Are many of the modern frontend tools and practices just technical debt in disguise?
Ooh, good question!
If we were to follow Jiro’s and his apprentices’ journeys and imagine web development the same way then would we ask of our junior developers to spend the first year of their career only on HTML. No CSS. No JavaScript. No frameworks. Only HTML. Only once HTML has been mastered do we move onto CSS. And only once that has been mastered do we move onto JavaScript.
And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S).
I really like this approach: using separate pages instead of in-page interactions. I remember Simon talking about how great this works, and that was a few years back, before we had view transitions.
I build separate, small HTML pages for each “interaction” I want, then I let CSS transitions take over and I get something that feels better than its JS counterpart for way less work.
This describes how I like to work too.
If you like the prospect of an old man ranting at clouds, this is for you.
You might want to use `display: contents` …maybe.
If you’re going to toggle the display of content with CSS, make sure the more complex selector does the hiding, not the showing.
Going back to school in Amsterdam.
The enshittification of React …which was already pretty shitty for users.
Balancing the ledger.