at my job we have some 7+ year old nextjs apps that don't receive new features but still do their jobs perfectly fine, and they keep changing random shit around for no reason, we've had to waste time on multiple refactors already for major nextjs version bumps once the older ones are no longer supported

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mikestorrent 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Is there any front end framework that doesn't do this? I dropped out of the front end years ago, and it seems to just get worse every year with a profusion of confusion. Doesn't anyone yearn for back when we didn't have to build the front end at all?? Just emit some HTML and serve up some JS files from the backend, and everything just flows from there?

Someone go make an AI rewrite of Apache+Mod-PHP and sell it to zoomers as the hip new thing already please

	▲	nicoburns an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Is there any front end framework that doesn't do this? React, if you are judicious about what additional packages you use on top of it. > I dropped out of the front end years ago, and it seems to just get worse every year with a profusion of confusion. This has actually gotten somewhat better in recent years starting with esbuild which made it possible to use a simple single-binary tool for bundling.
	▲	kopirgan an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What do you use?!

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hinkley an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sounds like Tapestry. Had a friend who loved it but he stopped talking about it after the 4th major architecture shift.

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IgorPartola 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is there any reason to keep upgrading if the apps keep doing their jobs perfectly fine? Pull in a stable version of the framework and the associated docs and stay there.

	▲	rovr138 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Security.