what the fuck is wrong with boomer professors ?? I enrolled in a front-end development elective at my uni in hopes to just brush up on some little things I may have missed on my self taught education.

this class has been an absolute tragedy. he spends about 1 hr each class trying to figure out how to configure docker... FOR A PROJECT THAT IS JUST BARE HTML CSS JS. WHY??? he is so adamant that we use DOCKER for this class. I don't understand why.

most of the students are BRAND NEW to front end development and know Jack shit. and here this professor is insisting on nuancing the class with docker. it makes absolutely no sense.

It's one fucking docker command, what is he doing?!

And this probably puts of a lot of students

My guess is he's trying to avoid the variable configurable problem by putting it all in a single env with docker. Which isn't entirely a bad instinct, but it does move the point of failure from software to hardware, which creates a higher probability of uncorrectable issues.

Git is objectively the better option.

The amount of "works on my machine" with just HTML, css, and a little JS is pretty dang low... seems unnecessary.

Ignore the Docker addiction - why is he starting Frontend with JavaScript?

I am sure, you will end up using it for everything that could be done with plain HTML5 and CSS3 anyway.
But he should at least try to teach the incredible power of plain HTML5 and CSS3 first.

@Oktokolo everybody knows that the only way to change the background color of a website is through jQuery

What univ are you in?. The univ I went to (University Of British Columbia) had a front end course and it was actually not bad

@alexbrooklyn that only works in docker ;)

Because spending hours to avoid lamp is what modern front end is all about.

It’s probably our fault. We made fun of front enders for years for “not being programmers” so they figured out a way to over complicate their entire field.

I legit want to do a LAMP vs MERN John Henry.

Where some young react dev will code a front end in MERN. Then I’ll code the same thing in LAMP. Then we’ll have the client request changes until the MERN guy literally dies.

Meanwhile, I’ll just be billing changes since I wrote all this code an know how it works.

Maybe MERN guy got the initial sprint done faster... but he can’t support his shit because he didn’t actually write anything but glue holding a bunch of npm modules together.

@HiFiWiFiSciFi

Sounds like you've met a lot of youngins who aren't using React correctly. I think it's a pretty powerful stack, and can actually be pretty effective in some areas of the web.