From 44b1b9d547504fec882b0afd951f739274287f54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mitja Felicijan Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 11:07:57 +0200 Subject: Added a chapter to a post --- .../2022-10-06- state-of-web-technologies-in-year-2022.md | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'content') diff --git a/content/posts/2022-10-06- state-of-web-technologies-in-year-2022.md b/content/posts/2022-10-06- state-of-web-technologies-in-year-2022.md index e8d7611..47938d7 100644 --- a/content/posts/2022-10-06- state-of-web-technologies-in-year-2022.md +++ b/content/posts/2022-10-06- state-of-web-technologies-in-year-2022.md @@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ draft: false 3. [Bundlers and Transpilers](#bundlers-and-transpilers) 4. [Jam Stack, Mach Stack no snack](#jam-stack-mach-stack-no-snack) 5. [Tailwind CSS still rocks!](#tailwind-css-still-rocks) -6. [Web development has a marketing issue](#web-development-has-a-marketing-issue) -7. [Conclusion](#conclusion) +6. [Code maintainability](#code-maintainability) +7. [Web development has a marketing issue](#web-development-has-a-marketing-issue) +8. [Conclusion](#conclusion) ## Introduction @@ -108,6 +109,14 @@ I have also noticed that people who criticize Tailwind the most never actually u But you know, whatever floats your boat! +## Code maintainability + +Somehow, people also stopped talking about maintenance. If you constantly try to catch the latest and greatest train, you are by that logic always trying new things. Which is a good thing if you want to learn about technologies and try them. But for the production environment, you have to have a stable stack that doesn’t change every 6 months. + +You can lock dependencies for sure. Nevertheless, the hype train moves along anyway. And the mindset this breads goes against locking the code. These bleeding-edge rolling release cycle is not helping. That is why enterprise solutions usually look down on these popular stacks and only do bare minimum to appear hip and cool. + +With that said, I still think that progress is good, but should be taken with a grain of salt. If your project is something that should be built once and then rarely updated, going with the latest stack is a possible way to go. But, if you are working on a project that lasts for years, you should probably approach it with some level of caution. Web development is often times too volatile. + ## Web development has a marketing issue I noticed that almost every project now has this marketing spin put on it. Everything is blazingly fast now. I get it, they are competing for your attention, but what happened to just being truthful and not inflating reality. -- cgit v1.2.3