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A highly compatible design with no ads, unnecessary images, videos, animations, scripts that goes straight to point delivering you exactly the information you need and nothing else? Something that's easily accessible even with old feature phones allowing older people to get information easily?
Simply something that loads instantly and just works?
Who would want that?
Found the backend dev. "CUT THIS AESTHETICS NONSENSE! GIMME THE VARIABLE CONTENTS ALREADY! WE'RE 3.54 NANOSECONDS BEHIND!"
Frontend: "Come on, this needs at least some flair. This isn't the 90s."
Throws React at it
React ugh, everybody is using NextJs these da- ....oh, what's that? We've moved on already?
The page at the top looks perfectly fine. It's useful, it gets the job done and it's lightweight.
almost as good as the motherfucking website. :D
It's almost fine. It needs to include units for the measurements.
Good, that we have specialists for both and nobody is advocating that everyone should be doing full-stack work... oh wait.
Full-stack development and devops: When you need an entire IT department but only want to pay for one person.
As a full stack developer I can assure you I can easily produce the result displayed in both those panels in the image 😏
"Full-stack" is just a term invented by stingy employers who try to get 2 for the price of 1
what is wrong with this frontend? not enough ads? loads too quickly?
I would hire you as my lawyer.
No cookie banner with the worst dark patterns of UX imaginable
The top one's a motherfucking website, indeed.
motherfucking website
One of my all time faves!
As a backend developer who occasionally has to work on the frontend, that top image is pretty accurate although it requires bootstrap smeared all over to pretty things up a bit. After that it will have the "Good Enough" seal of approval.
God I wish weather pages were more like that first one.
I like to use this one: https://wttr.in/
You can get info for a specific city by appending it like this: https://wttr.in/newyork
in Paris
in Paris
in Paris
in Paris
What is this bloat? Trash site.
Honestly you don't even need to make the text field visible. If they can't touch-type that's on them.
I would prefer a dropdown list of all possible coordinate combinations.
Pfft just go there and feel the air yourself. Knowing the weather in advance is bloat anyway. If medieval sailors could launch ships without weather info and survive 30% of the time, you can too.
I can make HTML look alright if I have to and it's simple enough requirements.
The real hell is making it look good in an email. Oh, you used something from the last 20 years of HTML/CSS progress? Well fuck you.
Looks like a perfectly fine frontend to me.
After some time toying with CSS I have decided to fuck it and whenever I need to make a website I will just either:
No bloat, no Javashit, no problem
From my experience, devs be like:
Backend, yay! Frontend, nay! ... and I the end, not even the backend works properly.
So in the end, it doesn't even matter?
I TRIED. SO. HARD.
Asa backend dev, it should be a 503 error. I live in 503 land.