Yes, 100% this. I've been trying to articulate the annoyance I have with modern front-end development and this hits the nail on the head.
Does anyone know SF companies that take this attitude? I've been interviewing all over at startups and large companies but I always feel misaligned when discussing front-end tradeoffs. I'm in the process of realigning my career away from full-stack dev nowadays because the state of frontend dev is so horrendous in my opinion. But I'd rather just work somewhere that isn't trying to turn every little thing into an SPA.
Because those are almost non-existent. There are many web-apps that need a fair bit of interactivity but a full SPA is overkill. I'm thinking things like JIRA where the interactivity of the kanban board is good but most of the time I'll just middle click to open a task in a new tab anyway, being a full SPA is a net negative. Most of the rest deserve to be a real desktop and/or mobile app.
SPA's aside web dev hasn't changed much in a decade, it's just been framework churn.
I've spent most of the last decade working on data-intensive web applications which definitely deserve to be SPAs. There's lots of opportunity, especially if you're willing to move away from the "retail" public-facing web.
What do you mean by data intensive? I'm thinking something that looks like a bloomberg terminal, complex tabular data or complex visualizations. Those are cases that should never be a web app at all, even with recent improvements HTML is a document format and horribly suited to those use cases.
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Yes, 100% this. I've been trying to articulate the annoyance I have with modern front-end development and this hits the nail on the head.
Does anyone know SF companies that take this attitude? I've been interviewing all over at startups and large companies but I always feel misaligned when discussing front-end tradeoffs. I'm in the process of realigning my career away from full-stack dev nowadays because the state of frontend dev is so horrendous in my opinion. But I'd rather just work somewhere that isn't trying to turn every little thing into an SPA.
Why not find a project somewhere that truly calls for an SPA? Those are the fun ones.
Because those are almost non-existent. There are many web-apps that need a fair bit of interactivity but a full SPA is overkill. I'm thinking things like JIRA where the interactivity of the kanban board is good but most of the time I'll just middle click to open a task in a new tab anyway, being a full SPA is a net negative. Most of the rest deserve to be a real desktop and/or mobile app.
SPA's aside web dev hasn't changed much in a decade, it's just been framework churn.
I've spent most of the last decade working on data-intensive web applications which definitely deserve to be SPAs. There's lots of opportunity, especially if you're willing to move away from the "retail" public-facing web.
What do you mean by data intensive? I'm thinking something that looks like a bloomberg terminal, complex tabular data or complex visualizations. Those are cases that should never be a web app at all, even with recent improvements HTML is a document format and horribly suited to those use cases.
Sell shovels during a gold rush, whats the problem?
If you are disillusioned then its time for something new