I won't try to guess the industry trajectory as a whole. But I can speak from personal experience. I've been on teams jump on the single page application bandwagon. React in particular.
It's been 5 years since initiating that investment. Reflecting on it I'm frankly amazed at the amount of technology that we don't need. The standard type of UI we build really hasn't changed but the time code and overall cost continues upward.
Looking back to 2018 we might have been collectively beguiled by the self-perpetuating marketing machine of single page application technology. We've decided unless there's a very clear and specific justification to write a thick client on a web page we're avoiding it going forward.
Tools such as HTMX are perfectly effective substitutes at far lower cost. At least for what we need
It's been 5 years since initiating that investment. Reflecting on it I'm frankly amazed at the amount of technology that we don't need. The standard type of UI we build really hasn't changed but the time code and overall cost continues upward.
Looking back to 2018 we might have been collectively beguiled by the self-perpetuating marketing machine of single page application technology. We've decided unless there's a very clear and specific justification to write a thick client on a web page we're avoiding it going forward.
Tools such as HTMX are perfectly effective substitutes at far lower cost. At least for what we need