The JavaScript Ecosystem Rollercoaster

That moment when your teapot is missing half its spout but you still try to pour tea with it anyway. Just like trying to follow that React tutorial from 2022 that casually omits the fact that half the API was deprecated last month. "Just import createClass—oh wait, that's gone. Um, just use componentWillMount—nope, that's gone too." The modern dev experience is basically pouring molten chocolate through a broken teapot and hoping your cup catches more than your countertop.

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Oh. My. God. Barbie is literally ALL OF US facing the unholy trinity of web development! She's over here coding HTML with one hand, CSS with the other, and when asked about JavaScript? The only reasonable response: SMASH FACE INTO KEYBOARD! 💀 The sheer audacity of Steven and Brian offering "help" while Barbie's already juggling the impossible. Like, excuse me?! I don't have a third hand for your callback hell nightmare, thankyouverymuch! Honestly, head-banging is the most elegant solution to JavaScript bugs I've seen in years. Pure genius. No debugging required!

I see we've discovered the elusive "filterception" in the wild. Some brilliant mind decided to filter the filters with a filter that filters filters. And they even helpfully commented "// filter" at the end – you know, in case the five other instances of "filter" weren't clear enough. This is the coding equivalent of saying "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" and expecting it to make sense. Somewhere, a code reviewer is staring at their screen, questioning their career choices.

The duality of regex existence: writing it with scientific precision vs. reading it like you're trying to decipher alien hieroglyphics with a hammer. That moment when your carefully crafted pattern looks like pure genius during creation but transforms into complete gibberish when you revisit it three days later. It's basically the programming equivalent of drunk texting yourself.

Content 9:41 A I ON 3 92 38 last seen today at 9:19 am looked into React today to broaden my general design knowledge. Just wanted to get an idea of what I can ask of devs. First time I've done any coding for three years.. Jeez, even getting started was an assault course. OK, need a code editor - download Visual Studio Code. Advice is to then download multiple extensions to improve syntax. Next, apparently I need Yarn. But I first need Homebrew to install Yarn. Download and install homebrew. This takes a while. Install Yarn. Apple then tells me it needs to update xcode. I let it. OK, cool, we're cruising... So I want to view some components. Apparently now I need to install an NPM library, but first I need to download node. I continue typing things into terminal, the meaning of which, I know not. Nearly 45 minutes has passed by this point and I have no idea what I've just done. I'm at literally step one of a tutorial. I go for a run instead. 5:16 pm V haha! fee like a screenshot of that message would get a lot of upvotes on r programmerhumor 5:18 pm Type a message