A Rant about Front-end Development

I am a front-end developer who is FED up about front-end development. If you write front-end, this isn't about you personally. It's about how your choices make me angry. Also this is about how my choices have made me angry. Also this is mostly just about choices, the technologies are incidental. Note: The views expressedRead More

This critique dismantles the current state of modern front-end development, arguing that the industry has traded simplicity for unnecessary complexity. By prioritizing bloated frameworks and over-engineered build tools over core principles like accessibility and performance, developers have created a fragile ecosystem. The core takeaway is a call to return to the fundamentals of the web, urging a shift away from "developer experience" as the primary metric in favor of building resilient, user-centric interfaces that actually last.