Thoughts on Svelte(Kit), one year and 3B requests later
I like the fact minimalist approaches, like svelte, htmx and alpine.js are getting more and more traction.I felt like fighting this fight alone for years in the golden years of node, webpack and react where everybody was creating crazy stacks and adding GraphQL and so on, to basically get what Django + jquery did 10 years ago in a tenth of the time and code.So far I also survived:- xml is the future- let's use nosql for all the things- you must use the same language at the back and front- yes, you site must have an AMP version (ah, you forgot this one, didn't you? It was sooo imporant, and then pouf, it was gone like tear in the rain)- yes, your home page must be an SPA- you can't code anything without async- you can't live without a message queue- everything must become a micro service- of course you need a container for that- of course you need a orchestrator to organize those containers- of course you need the cloud, it would be crazy to deal with those containers and orchestrators yourself- dude, why do you have a server? Use a serveless backend!- dude, why do you have a backend? Just call saas from the edge!Every year, some generation of engineers have to learn the concepts of "there is no silver bullet", "use the right tech for the right problem", "your are not google", "rewriting a codebase every 2 years is not a good business decision", "things cost money".