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0 pointsZelphyr6y ago0 comments

I don't see what's wrong with this post that it should be downvoted like it has been. I personally agree with this sentiment. It's like the developers who immediately rush to massive scale when all they've been asked to build is effectively a prototype. I've seen it time and again... they get bogged down in making sure the app can scale when they have yet to have a single paying customer for the product. At that point, they don't even know if there is even a market for the product and they're trying to build something that millions of users can use right out of the box. The priorities are off.

If a combination of back-end processing with some vanilla javascript, or jquery will get you to market for your first 100-1000 users (which, we know it will because that used to be the only way we could do things, on much less powerful hardware no less) then I say go with that. In the mean time you can work with the stakeholders to put together a strategy for scaling up as demand increases.

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lukevp6y ago

I replied to one of your other posts about how great I think React development is, but I want to also state my wholehearted agreement with this thread. For things you would use a SPA framework for, it’s really the types of thing that are apps that happen to be hosted through a web browser. They’re very distinct from web pages. Most user facing websites should be built with backend server processing and js/query. React is nice because you can progressively enhance particular components, so it works well as a complement to a backend language, but in that case the tooling overhead is pretty high for what you get. So in those cases I typically go the jQuery route as well.

philbarr6y ago

> It's like the developers who immediately rush to massive scale when all they've been asked to build is effectively a prototype.

I just finished working in the public sector and it's absolutely terrible for this. We had a microservice based event-driven architecture, all on AWS, load balancers everywhere. It was so complicated not a single person knew the entire architecture.

Current number of users: 65

Expected maximum number of users ever: 8000

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