Ask HN: Is there a web framework that is focused on stability and LTS?
If you were to build a web application that should last the next 10-15 years, what technologies would you choose?
Of course it also depends on what you’re building: if it’s simple you could go for old school technologies like jQuery and <script> tags. All those things will still work in 10-15 years time. (generally functionalities are only added to the web, not removed, which means websites from the 90’s should still work on modern day browsers)
I’m personally a React developer and I like that over the last couple of years there have been only a few (and very minor) breaking changes. Upgrading React on any project has not caused me any troubles, which is great.
What the web will look like in 10 years is completely unknown. What I would concentrate on is making sure the requirements, APIs and schemas are as solid as possible. In 10 years time if you decide modern web dev is better than what you built a decade ago then moving the app to a new platform will be much simpler if you KNOW what the app does, what shape the data has to be, what the product owner actually needed, and how to make things backwards compatible.