bundie1d ago

We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under two

https://blog.railway.com/p/moving-railways-frontend-off-nextjs

Moving Railway's Frontend Off Next.js

We migrated

Railway Blog
Show threadmaccard1d ago
It’s absolutely mind boggling to me that we have gotten to a point that building a web frontend takes longer than compiling the Linux kernel..
Show threadHamuko
As a non-frontend developer mainly observing and touching something here and there, a lot of the things that frontend developers do seem vastly over-engineered.
Apr 8 at 8:23amWeb
Show threadramon1561d ago

I'm not insanely deep into frontend, I mostly just pick up React and call it a day, but it seems like this is also over-engineered?

I've seen vanilla JS before, and I just know I wouldn't want to do the housekeeping that comes with it. People claim it's less work because it' simpler, but I fully expect myself to rewrite the thing at least twice, only to give up because I have no actual mental model anymore of how it works.

Show threadthibran1d ago

Isn't the main problem that the building blocks the modern web is based on are not a good fit for what we do with it?

CSS is a total mess. HTML is a mess. JS is okay, but is not a high quality language.

We would save so much time and money if we would have a modern base to build on. Sadly this will probably never happen, because company interests will try to corrupt the process and therefore destroy it.

Show threadnixpulvis1d ago
Same reason why 90% of websites have serious UX issues and constant bugs. This and ad frameworks.