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A brief history of web development, and why your framework doesn't matter

This is how I remember the crazy journey that web development has gone through in the past few years. Or rather this is *my* journey being a web developer. So I will omit events. I may mess up the timeline. This whole article may not be of any use to you. But for me, putting all the history I know into writing helped me appreciate how much things stay the same no matter how much they change.

And before we knew it, the language that was made to display sparkles and counters on websites took over everything and we started writing single page applications or SPAs. We had a new JavaScript bundler every other Tuesday, a new router every Sunday, a new CSS-in-JS solution every Friday, and a new state management library every f***ken day. Why spend time and effort securing and optimizing a GraphQL schema when I can throw a database call in a load function and have everything be typed server to client ?

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