A last minute change of plans and a day spent battling with complicated wed dev has us asking a simple question: Did we make it all too complicated?

From file based routing in React Native and NestJS to horrifically long RxJS pipelines in NestJS whilst worrying about React Server components and just how much JavaScript should you ship to the client, we are starting to feel like maybe 99.9% of the industry's focus has shifted to the 0.1% of things that don't really matter to users?

SimonB also gives a fun run down or comparing the greener (and not so green grass) in the worlds of PHP, Swift and SwiftUI, Python and JavaScript.

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Links

• Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge
• Vercel
• The Phoenix Project
• Digital Ocean
• Google Cloud Run
• What is Docker?

Want more from us?

• Find Simon B at All The Code
• Find Simon G at Galaxies.dev

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