Purple Is The New Black

Content Tech wizard Front-end dev: Hello world Back-end dev: Hello server Xavier Full-stack dev: Hello Stackoverflow

Content Fireship fireshipdev Follow The untold history of web development: 1990: HTML invented 1994: CSS invented to fix HTML 1995: JS invented to fix HTMLCSS 2006: Query invented to fix J 2010: AngularS invented to fix jQuery 2013: React invented to fix AngularS 2014: Vue invented to fix React Angular 2016: Angular 2 invented to fix AngularS React 2019: Svelte 3 invented to fix React, Angular, Vue 2019: React hooks invented to fix React 2020: Vue 3 invented to fix React hooks 2020: Solid invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue 2020: HTMX 1.0 invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue, Solid 2021: React suspense invented to fix React, again 2023: Svelte Runes invented to fix Svelte 2024: Query still used on 75 of websites

Five identical orange cats labeled as different programming languages surrounding a loaf of bread labeled "HTML". Because let's face it, HTML isn't a real programming language - it's just bread. Delicious, structurally important bread that holds everything together, but still... just bread. Meanwhile, all the "real" programming languages are basically the same cat in different moods. Sure, they'll hiss and scratch at each other about which one is superior, but deep down they're all just orange cats doing cat things with slightly different attitudes.

That moment when your phone explodes with Vercel deployment failure notifications at midnight and you're just sitting there like a supervillain contemplating your life choices. The red lighting is PERFECT because that's exactly what your face looks like when you realize you pushed to production without testing that one tiny change that "couldn't possibly break anything." Spoiler alert: IT BROKE EVERYTHING. Now you're trapped in deployment hell with no escape, just you and your phone buzzing with the same message over and over and over. Sleep? What's that? We don't know her anymore.

The modern software development lifecycle: pour some StackOverflow solutions and GitHub snippets into your old project, call it a new web app, and hope nobody notices the coffee stains. Who needs original code when you can just recycle the same 5 functions you've been using since 2015? The "pour and pray" method is basically 90% of web development at this point. Bonus points if you rename a few variables to make it look like you actually wrote something new.

Content LADIES AND GENTELMEN. IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE TO INFOR ME YOU, THAT THAVE CREATED A NOT TERRIBLE UT WITHOUT USING A UI LIBRARY