I was once discussing a third-party integration with a React developer. The integration required that our app POST a couple of fields to the third-party's site. I found that the developer was struggling with the integration and they were asking me questions about it when I said something to them along the lines of "It's just an HTML form, with a couple of hidden inputs that when submitted make a POST request to this URL" they said to me "Yeah, well HTML is kinda old, it's not really used anymore"...
I'm sure I've said plenty of stupid things when I was green but I hope no one remembers them like I remember this one. It lives rent free in my head.
It's definitely true that many developers would benefit a lot from learning more about the basic HTML and the web platform. But I refuse to support the notion that this is somehow React's fault.
In my personal experience, react allowed me to rely more on the native web platform APIs, not less, than other frameworks (at the time that I switched to react)
> they said to me "Yeah, well HTML is kinda old, it's not really used anymore"...
> I'm sure I've said plenty of stupid things when I was green but I hope no one remembers them like I remember this one. It lives rent free in my head.
I'm doing gigging while my product is gaining traction. Last week, I received this verbatim rejection for a PR review at a client, who's oldest developer is 27:
"No, we don't want all the logic in the same place. You must split the logic up"
This is also one that will take up valuable space in my head till the end of time :-(
(PS. Yes, I split the logic so that it was evenly balanced in 3 different programming languages, instead of having the entire logic in C# alone)
I was once discussing a third-party integration with a React developer. The integration required that our app POST a couple of fields to the third-party's site. I found that the developer was struggling with the integration and they were asking me questions about it when I said something to them along the lines of "It's just an HTML form, with a couple of hidden inputs that when submitted make a POST request to this URL" they said to me "Yeah, well HTML is kinda old, it's not really used anymore"...
I'm sure I've said plenty of stupid things when I was green but I hope no one remembers them like I remember this one. It lives rent free in my head.