Have u guys noticed internet dev advice is fucking awful now.

“Don’t worry about web performance”
“You don’t need an ID on an input tag”
“Don’t use just react anymore, use a combined framework like next”

Is this just Medium, or has it spread?

@Demolishun oh it’s everywhere now - even SO

@chonky-quiche shit...

No but I’ve noticed the trend that "internet", "web" and "frontend" become synonyms and it disturbs me.

Now?

Bad advice have been in circulation fir the last 20+ years, its just which advice that are bad that changes ;)

I have no idea how new developers start these days

@retoor I guess they start with the current week’s most hyped js framework.

@Lensflare I think so too but that's sad. It's a painful way to start

@Lensflare BE isn’t as opinionated as the FE so a lot of SO is centered on the FE - also I meant “dev advice on the internet”

@chonky-quiche ah. I see.

@retoor It sounds a little "boomer-ish" but this new generation of devs don't even care about the fundamentals.

Back in my day, we had to start with Core JS or Core PHP to be able to understand anything on the web.

But now, these frameworks spoon fed everything to the new devs these days.

@Sid2006 I know. It frustrates me too and makes me sad. It's just not a nerd profession anymore

@Sid2006 I feel like enough practice and people in FE will turn to either the “native everything” camp or the “abstraction everything” camp. I can see the benefits in both sides, but I like to stick to native bc I don’t want to kill myself

@Sid2006 I feel like C/C++ (probably more C) can help a dev understand the way a computer works better. Then any language after that is easier.

@Demolishun learning c is a rollercoaster. When I wrote my first project (a webdav server) without memory leaks I felt like a god

@Sid2006 you end up with the articles like "I sped up my js framework by 1000x" and you read it and they just atopped being retarded and making 50k copies of everything in a loop....

It always amazes me how little front-end devs even think about the performance of what they do

@YADU ...

Or in general related to this discussion:

StackOverflow / Medium etc. was always opinionated content.

Especially Medium is cringe click bait.

My advice to fresh recruits is to not read stack overflow / medium at all.

Because it's mostly either wrong or gives them very wrong ideas.

... Which are very hard to whack out of their minds later.

This goes especially for titles like " Pro Senior tips"… "Why XY is wrong" ... "Top N mistakes you make"... Etc.

Just. Cringe. Bullshit.

Sometimes even 10 year old outdated books are better than the shit you find online.

Sad that books are a dieing thing.