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Comment by nsonha

8 days ago

I think all software engineers in the world who know HTML/CSS (like who doesn't?) beg to differ

Really funny how some devs think they know the secrets of engineering simplicity and everyone else is a fool for not knowing what they know (HTML/CSS).

Read this thread. There are some comments about using React components for everything and never touching HTML tags and CSS. And they probably call themselves senior frontend engineers.

  • If not React it's just another abstraction (including whatever you come up with) that is arbitrary and shitty in a different way. Front-end/mobile is so boring and unimportant that it absolutely makes sense to just pick a thing and use it everywhere, and save your brain capacity for interesting problem solving. I say this as someone who's been doing front end for 10 years.

    • If frontend is boring and unimportant, what is exciting and important? saving records in a database? UX is what makes money and it is done through frontend.

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