15 years ago I learned HTML, JS, SQL and PHP at school. 7 years ago i got pulled into the Javascript ecosystem with NodeJS and React and I became a web developer. This year I see AstroJS and it feels like I met an old friend… - ThreadSky

15 years ago I learned HTML, JS, SQL and PHP at school.

7 years ago i got pulled into the Javascript ecosystem with NodeJS and React and I became a web developer.

This year I see AstroJS and it feels like I met an old friend…

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bashlk.bsky.social•96 days ago

How do you see Astro being similar to old school web development?

rudi.dev•103 days ago

Astro is great, definitely reminiscent of the old days! 😃 I do find 11ty to be even simpler and capable for most sites though

henri-tuhola.bsky.social•103 days ago

Hi Dennis.

Astro seems interesting. But I'm a bit wary of tying myself to a framework even today. Is it good in this sense? Could it be also treated like a library?

helloeyob.bsky.social•100 days ago

When it comes to backend php is still the Best

bobsnyder.bsky.social•102 days ago

never looked into AstroJS

ethandoescode.bsky.social•103 days ago

My school still using PHP for the intro web class 😭

ayudam.bsky.social•102 days ago

My school still using java for Android app development

ethandoescode.bsky.social•102 days ago

Same here 😂

lukehopkins.bsky.social•103 days ago

What's wrong with that?

ethandoescode.bsky.social•103 days ago

Nothing particularly wrong with it, I’m sure PHP is fine. Building with JS would probably be more applicable to today’s job market tho

lukehopkins.bsky.social•103 days ago

Yea, that's true. Although I think you can learn the fundamentals with either. Both have their nuances. I learnt on PHP (many years ago) but now mostly JS (with a little Laravel on the side sometimes)

marcmchardy.bsky.social•103 days ago

It's a solid foundation!

pigfamily.bsky.social•102 days ago

Programming languages doesn't matter, algorithms do.

devnuma.bsky.social•102 days ago

After the years i learned its all about sintax, wheter it be a "." Or a "->" or , getObject(). Its all about the algorithm

shreddit.bsky.social•103 days ago

Do they at least use an up to date version?

ethandoescode.bsky.social•103 days ago

I have my doubts. I’m taking it in the spring, I’ll let ya know haha

shadvyr.bsky.social•102 days ago

We had (at least) 10 years of using the next best thing with the next best paradigm and the next best methodology and i rarely see any of those bringing the rewards they promise, but only added complexity and slower pages

a return to the old ways is always welcome with me.

bipstymcbipste.bsky.social•102 days ago

My web class in uni was just html and CSS cause our teacher had personal stuff to deal with and that felt like a waste. I've learnt a bit of stuff now though

fuckdevin.bsky.social•103 days ago

as someone in the same boat, LAMP stack will always be the best

arkticos.bsky.social•103 days ago

Web tech has gone a little full circle the last year or so. Back to jQuery!

bashlk.bsky.social•96 days ago

Nah that would be a step back. We need to give it a new name. Maybe HTMX 🤔

lumihanki.bsky.social•102 days ago

Can you explain this for me, please? So, we have seen frameworks like React rise up, but are things changing now? I honestly enjoy modifying the DOM with vanilla JS functions, like querySelector🙈

arkticos.bsky.social•102 days ago

The post was a little bit tongue-in-cheek.

When I first started I’d use PHP, doing the heavy lifting server-side. When Ajax was being added everywhere things got more dynamic, loading in data and manually updating the DOM. Less pre-rendering, JavaScript doing more work.

arkticos.bsky.social•102 days ago

I remember when Google released autocomplete and instant result, it was a game changer!

jQuery helped a lot with cross browser support (I’ve heard good things about jQuery4). Frameworks helped further, managing state, introducing a lot of good practices and re-usability to code.

arkticos.bsky.social•102 days ago

Now more frameworks are adding server-side features to pre-render/statically generate more, then the client takes over. So it (jokingly) feels like things are going full circle, so the next step is more jQuery! Then back to frameworks.. and the cycle continues 😆

arkticos.bsky.social•102 days ago

Using vanilla JS is perfectly valid, jQuery too (it’s still used on the majority of websites). It really depends on your project.

When I was younger, I built a simple excel-like app using jQuery/PHP. Having access to a framework would have saved so much time.

That’s my quick run down.

sachingk.bsky.social•100 days ago

How should I compare AstroJS with #WordPress?

#wordpress these days is more than just a CMS

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