>I’ve hit a point where it just doesn’t seem like the end justifies the means in the vast majority of cases anymore
I agree, but the only path forward is to change the specifications for HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
As an industry we need to accept that these technologies get used to build web pages as well as software and adjust. This will remove a ton of the tooling. I think there are 3 basic things we could do to solve this:
1. Add dynamic interpolation to the HTML spec. This stops every framework from having to invent it's own version of it.
2. Update the DOM api to allow data binding/state and improve the Web APIs around routing/history to make SPAs even easier.
3. Update the HTML spec to allow for semantically describing user interface elements of software applications.
But it's going to be a hard sell. I am slowly writing a blog post about this, but I'm not sure I will be able to get anybody to listen. I feel like now, when we're in a browser monoculture where the browser vendor is actually competent is the perfect time to push this stuff through.
BTW: You can put your email in at daniel.do to get emailed when I release my post.
I agree, but the only path forward is to change the specifications for HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
As an industry we need to accept that these technologies get used to build web pages as well as software and adjust. This will remove a ton of the tooling. I think there are 3 basic things we could do to solve this:
1. Add dynamic interpolation to the HTML spec. This stops every framework from having to invent it's own version of it. 2. Update the DOM api to allow data binding/state and improve the Web APIs around routing/history to make SPAs even easier. 3. Update the HTML spec to allow for semantically describing user interface elements of software applications.
But it's going to be a hard sell. I am slowly writing a blog post about this, but I'm not sure I will be able to get anybody to listen. I feel like now, when we're in a browser monoculture where the browser vendor is actually competent is the perfect time to push this stuff through.
BTW: You can put your email in at daniel.do to get emailed when I release my post.