"The Sad State of Web Development"

dalecosp

Anyone read these?

The Sad State of Web Development

Let's Make a Webpage in 2016

Derokorian

I have now. Enjoyable reads 🙂

I guess I'm a dinosaur, I still write javascript O_o.

dalecosp

Derokorian;11054173 wrote:
I have now. Enjoyable reads 🙂

I guess I'm a dinosaur, I still write javascript O_o.

Ditto! LOL'ed at this on a friend's page the other day:

"Me at a job interview" ...

Weedpacket

The punchline to that second one made me weep.

dalecosp

Weedpacket;11054185 wrote:
The punchline to that second one made me weep.

I'm not sure everyone get the same "punch" ... care to elaborate?

I was catching on by the time he mentioned Dan Abramov's hair, but I didn't LOL until:

Jordan Scales wrote:

$ rm react-hot-boilerplate
rm: react-hot-boilerplate: is a directory
$ sudo rm react-hot-boilerplate
Password:
rm: react-hot-boilerplate: is a directory
$ man rm
$ rm -rf react-hot-boilerplate

Derokorian

Ha I honestly thought the best part was:

Jordan Scales wrote:
I then proceeded to run the included web server:
$ nmp start
bash: nmp: command not found
And — surprise, surprise — it didn’t work (as if npm ever works am I right?).

dalecosp

Derokorian;11054195 wrote:
Ha I honestly thought the best part was:

I read too fast and didn't even notice the "typo" until someone commented at the bottom ...

cretaceous

What.. I'm not the only one that thinks it's all gone a bit over the top?

It's like lawyers or any other closed shop trade.. make it impossible for anyone outside to understand what it's all about.
(Ahem.. only somehow it's gone wrong in that clients now think it can all be done for free from Wordpress or some other instant gratification tool)

Weedpacket

dalecosp;11054193 wrote:
I'm not sure everyone get the same "punch" ... care to elaborate?

Sure, I was in a ha-ha-only-serious laugh-or-I'll-scream mode throughout, but this...:

Jordan Scales wrote:

import React from ‘react’;
import { render } from ‘react-dom’;
import { App } from ‘./App’;

render(
  <html>
    <body>
      <img alt="my face" src=”/images/me.bmp" />
      <h1>Jordan Scales</h1>
      <h2>web artisan</h2>

  <p>
    Hi my name is Jordan and I am a web developer
    currently working at Khan Academy.
  </p>
</body>
  </html>,
  document.getElementById(‘root’)
);

Look at that block of code. Now look closer.

Weedpacket

https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/19412/guy-brings-down-thousands-of-npm-builds

Not surprising, given some of the things that are made into external dependencies (see further down the thread).

dalecosp

Weedpacket;11054211 wrote:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/19412/guy-brings-down-thousands-of-npm-builds

Not surprising, given some of the things that are made into external dependencies (see further down the thread).

Wow! Didn't realize this thread was so, um, timely ...

Methinks I shouldst write an NPM module that prints a one and a bunch of zeroes and call it, oh, "Google" or something ... 😃