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The Frontend Treadmill
A lot of frontend teams are very convinced that rewriting their frontend will lead to the promised land. And I am the bearer of bad tidings. If you are building a product that you hope has longevity, your frontend framework is the least interesting technical decision for you to make. And all of the time you spend arguing about it is wasted energy. I will die on this hill.
If you are building a product that you hope has longevity, your frontend framework is the least interesting technical decision for you to make. I believe if you stick closer to core web technologies, you’ll be better able to hire capable engineers in the future without them convincing you they can’t do work without rewriting millions of lines of code. And if you’re an engineer, you will be able to retain much higher market value over time if you dig into and understand core web technologies.
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