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While I agree with the general sentiment that our de facto "default" stack of building things on the web has gotten bit too complex, all the other stuff is still there.

We can write HTML, vanilla Javascript and CSS and push them on a server and they work — even better than they used to do because the languages and browser support has improved.

We can write simple PHP and deploy that and it will still work just like before.

Simplicity is still there, if you choose it.

https://idiallo.com/blog/what-we-lost-with-php-and-jquery

Juhis
@hamatti@mastodon.world

That said, I agree that for a beginner, it can be more overwhelming to get started than it was before.

I love building web frontends for hobby projects with vanilla Javascript. No build processes, no frameworks, just modern Javascript with HTML and CSS.

Juhis
@hamatti@mastodon.world

And when it comes to jQuery, I think it's wonderful that we don't need it anymore. Browsers have caught up with the language in a way that there's way less need for such a "polyfill" to make the code work for all browsers.

Simplifies!

Daniel Schildt
@autiomaa@mementomori.social

@hamatti@mastodon.world CSS has also gotten a lot better in the decade. Recently widely available improvements like CSS Nesting reduced the need for using Sass, and a lot of people still haven't realised how much more flexibility that enables. Less tools for more directly editable layouts.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Nesting_selector