Baldur Bjarnason

... works as a web developer in Hveragerði, Iceland, and writes about the web, digital publishing, and web/product development

These are his notes

If I am to be honest, the thing that scares me the most about the web dev community today is that so many seem insistent that those of us who eschew React and frameworks for practical reasons are archaic and bad at our jobs.

And before anybody replies with ‘but that isn’t what anybody’s saying’ or something along those lines.

Yes. Yes, people are actually saying this.

I’ve had several IRL conversations where people said that making websites without frameworks is error-prone and unsafe and should be avoided. Usually those people either hadn’t been born or were still in their diapers when I made my first website.

(This ended up being way more ‘angry old man shouting at clouds’ than intended. Oh, well 😁)