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

/frontend dev・founder/decentralized data wrangler /blockhead・UI/UX abstractionist・DeFi/web3 builder・dropout・24・prev /dydx, ritual.net・x.com/darryl__yeo

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

founder @explorelabs

don't take my casts seriously please (most of them at least)

Yes. Designers suck at this. Front Enders are deluded