Web Development: Then Vs. Now

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Web Development: Then Vs. Now

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Remember when web development meant just grabbing your Laravel briefcase and heading out the door? Fast forward to today, and you're drowning in a sea of frameworks and libraries! SpongeBob perfectly captures the evolution from the simpler "Then" days with just Laravel to the chaotic "Now" where you're bombarded with Express.js, Next.js, GraphQL, REST APIs, multiple Node.js versions, and React with its infinity symbol (because the learning curve truly never ends). It's like going from carrying a single briefcase to juggling flaming chainsaws while riding a unicycle. The thousand-yard stare in modern SpongeBob's eyes is the universal expression of every developer who just wanted to update a simple dependency and ended up rebuilding their entire tech stack.

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