Have we come full circle on Web development? • Thomas Eizinger • CodeCrafts 2023

This presentation was recorded at Code Crafts 2023
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Development for the Web has seen many advances over the last decades. Yet, from an architectural point of view, it is still the same. At its core, we have technologies such as HTTP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript; none of which seem to go away anytime soon. What has all the innovation been about then? Has there been any innovation?
In this talk, we take a journey through the last two decades of web development and contrast it with the original architecture of the web: the REST architectural style. Having refreshed on the design principles of the web, we look at an alternative to SPAs built using React, Angular and the like. Instead of throwing more JavaScript libraries at the problem, what if we just let the server generate the HTML, have the client render it but wire it all up in such a way that it satisfies today‘s UX standards? By combining the ideas of the REST style with modern technologies like QUIC and CDNs, we get a lean yet powerful stack that may change the way you think about web development.
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