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Is this because you feel the average frontend now requires tons of build steps? (Babel or Compiling TS to JS, css-preprocessors, etc)?
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irene3395363d@jiraTicket Front end used to be my specialty. Now I hate it. It is the area of the codebase where devs make stupid decisions because “we make custom software”. Stupid components that are developed in house that are impossible to maintain long term.
People really can’t figure out when to split components to reduce permutations. We had a modal component that had a complex form inside. Then at some point the data locks and we need read only mode. The designer gives a nice wireframe. Front end dev manipulates the whole form into a read only component and does css to make the form not look like a form. That becomes a massive PITA to maintain.
If it is read only swap with a simple read only component. I even said that before the work happened. Now we are maintaining insanely complex form read only hybrid code. FFS.
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