javascript

2015 is when web development went to shit. Web development used to be nice. You could fire up a text editor and start creating JS and CSS files. You can absolutely still do this. That has not changed. So yes, everything I’m about to say can be invalidated by saying that.

The web (specifically the Javascript/Node community) has created some of the most complicated, convoluted, over engineered tools ever conceived.

2015 is when web development went to shit. Web development used to be nice. You could fire up a text editor and start creating JS and CSS files. You can absolutely still do this. That has not changed. So yes, everything I’m about to say can be invalidated by saying that.

The web (specifically the Javascript/Node community) has created some of the most complicated, convoluted, over engineered tools ever conceived.

The big problem with this process relates to User Experience Design. No one is even discussing what we would try and build and how it would work. We advise our clients to understand their problem and their users before spending time solutioneering, this is twelve levels deeper than that. Drupal has a development driven culture, it always has. I'm not surprised people are more interested in debating the framework of the week instead of looking at the problems it could be solving.

The big problem with this process relates to User Experience Design. No one is even discussing what we would try and build and how it would work. We advise our clients to understand their problem and their users before spending time solutioneering, this is twelve levels deeper than that. Drupal has a development driven culture, it always has. I'm not surprised people are more interested in debating the framework of the week instead of looking at the problems it could be solving.

The big problem with this process relates to User Experience Design. No one is even discussing what we would try and build and how it would work. We advise our clients to understand their problem and their users before spending time solutioneering, this is twelve levels deeper than that. Drupal has a development driven culture, it always has. I'm not surprised people are more interested in debating the framework of the week instead of looking at the problems it could be solving.

I tasked a small team made up of various experts from the Drupal and various JavaScript communities with putting together a list of criteria and a comparison matrix to help us decide on the most appropriate client-side framework for progressive decoupling in Drupal.

I tasked a small team made up of various experts from the Drupal and various JavaScript communities with putting together a list of criteria and a comparison matrix to help us decide on the most appropriate client-side framework for progressive decoupling in Drupal.

I tasked a small team made up of various experts from the Drupal and various JavaScript communities with putting together a list of criteria and a comparison matrix to help us decide on the most appropriate client-side framework for progressive decoupling in Drupal.