Comment by jmathai
14 hours ago
I’m uncomfortable using most JS frameworks. The churn is so high and something new comes out every couple of years.
At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old developer, I am currently using minimal JS, native when possible and jquery as needed. The UX is just fine. Some pages have interactive JS but most reload the page. I have a hard time imagining this isn’t an option for most web apps.
It is fine to sound like a grumpy old developer. We have clients using nextjs and it might have its place if you have apps in active development with dedicated teams, however for LoB apps for instance that don't change a lot and/or don't have continued dev or a dedicated team over time, it's a bad choice imho. Personally, I consider it a terrible choice always, because of the churn mostly; the current info in SO and LLMs is often wrong because of that churn. Best practices change and you have to pin everything or things auto-break. We get hired for a lot of $ to fix that in emergence settings, but I rather would have that people not use this stuff at all. It's not even a good dev experience imho, but I guess that's personal as either others are resume-devving and lying or just have another idea about what is a nice experience.