Lybid, Cancer Fish and Pike: The Many Faces of Frontend in 2024
summary
A frontend developer surveys the diverse landscape of 2024 frontend tooling, covering work on legacy GitLab plus recent experiments with Next.js (React Server Components, App Router), Qwik and Qwik City with Resumability trade-offs, and HTMX paired with Alpine.js. The talk also mentions trying Vue.js Vapor, following discussions about Angular’s reunification and anticipation for React 19, and asks how teams should choose what to adopt next.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:30Frontend hyperbole issues
- 4:24Modern frontend complexity
- 8:47Open Source funding
- 10:58React evolution
- 13:50Why devs love problems
- 16:20Frontend devs make buttons?
- 18:35State management complexity
- 21:26Why devs avoid learning
- 24:43Microfrontends tradeoffs
- 28:02React solves Facebook
- 31:19Config and framework issues
- 34:50Three main frontend problems
- 37:44SSR isn't silver bullet
- 40:35HTMX classic HTML
- 45:21Three key questions 2024
- 47:55Q&A ESLint TypeScript Apollo
- 50:30Learn Astro avoid narrowing
- 51:57Full-stack in 2024
- 52:40Frontend to mobile
- 54:02HTMX production
- 56:35Summary advice
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