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> Maybe because it feels like taking a small, simple thing and making it seem like it's something more.

Perhaps it makes more sense to treat frontend engineering as thick client desktop development of yore. Websites are no longer small, simple things, they are now the primary apps that many people use (through the broswer and especially through Electron), so there needs to be sufficient tooling around managing that complexity.



You’re right. That makes sense. I’ve been out of web dev for about 4 years so I’m just reactionary now I guess.




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