Frontend

In an era where everyone and their mother can generate and deploy the same generic-looking React / Tailwind / shadcn/ui slop to Vercel at the press of a button, your moat as a frontend developer remains the following:

• mastering the underlying web standards
• understanding tradeoffs and hard limits of existing frameworks/libraries/abstractions
• knowing how to cut bloat and replace building blocks with leaner, more flexible, or more maintainable alternatives
• leveraging lesser-explored platform features to create delightful, net-new experiences on the web

In an era where everyone and their mother can generate and deploy the same generic-looking React / Tailwind / shadcn/ui slop to Vercel at the press of a button, your moat as a frontend developer remains the following:

• mastering the underlying web standards
• understanding tradeoffs and hard limits of existing frameworks/libraries/abstractions
• knowing how to cut bloat and replace building blocks with leaner, more flexible, or more maintainable alternatives
• leveraging lesser-explored platform features to create delightful, net-new experiences on the web

https://youtu.be/TBIjgBVFjVI

Something to be said about the sheer volume of devfluencer tutorials and boilerplate code available for React compared to other frontend frameworks, further cementing its dominance in the LLM era (for better or worse).

It’s enough to bias the models such that Cursor will occasionally hallucinate React hooks and JSX expressions despite me working in a Svelte codebase (though the models seems to be getting more discerning over time).

Learning how and when to nudge AI assistants toward lesser-known but objectively better building blocks will be a competitive edge moving forward.

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Great for quick prototypes and finding PMF for sure. In this case I’m not bought into the stack and I know there are hard limits as to how much I can customize it so I personally wouldn’t count on it for anything I’d want to maintain myself for the long haul.

fwiw I think the bigger thing is figuring out exactly what you need in the simplest format possible than making it look better after you have validated it

> leveraging lesser-explored platform features to create delightful, net-new experiences on the web

This. I recently implemented carousel using scroll snap replacing JS library that got suggested by Claude. This required non-trivial understanding of how DOM and event loop works but I got it working in 30 LOCs and it works smoothly on mobile, too (no need for JS exec during each repaint.)

There are other similar features built-in into modern browsers that not many people know about because they don't know how to read MDN or caniuse.com

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AND KNOWING HOW TO ACTUALLY DESIGN

Have an actual fucking opinion and stop settling for Fisher-Price safe UI. It's so boring.

Get sick with css animations, framer motion, react-spring, r3f, pixijs & rive. Flex your trig and linear algebra skills with dynamic motion.

Let's bring life to these templates and spend less time on blocking out layouts!

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