I’ve been dipping my toes into NextJS, Vercel, PlanetScale, and other serverless / edge providers, and there’s so many terms / concepts thrown my way that I feel overwhelmed a lot of the time.

I mean, I’m already a web developer well versed with React, and I love my SPA setup with Vite, so for others outside the web dev space, this must be a nightmare to keep up with.

Was curious to hear your thoughts on the rapidly evolving space of web dev.

  • Art 🌈
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    131 year ago

    As a hobbyist programmer, the answer is “no”. I went to college 10+ years ago and was already outdated. I never got a job and decided to abandon this path.

    A while ago I decided to move my Excel project to webdev and wanted to use one of those modern tools… Yeah, no. I felt like a grandpa trying to use a drone. I’m just going to stick to my good ol’ PHP and jQuery.

    There have been so many changes in such a short time, imo. It’s unrealistic to keep up.

    • @TeaHands
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      71 year ago

      Nothing wrong with a bit of solid PHP, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!

      • Art 🌈
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        61 year ago

        I’m used to the banter, lol! PHP has always gotten a lot of flak, but then everyone uses it quietly. 😂

        That said, I was surprised how much it has improved in the last 10 years. I stopped webdev in version 5, and now there’s version 8 with a lot of cool stuff that renders old “tricks” useless. I’m like a kid in a candy store, these days.

        • @TeaHands
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          71 year ago

          Yeah I remember trying people to convince it’d changed its ways when 7 came out, but alas the stereotype persists. Oh well, their loss! 🤓

          • @[email protected]
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            51 year ago

            And the outdated php tutorials persists. And the old Stackoverflow answers persists.

            It was at least last time I had to update an old app past php 7 because Azure websites was dropping support.