Ask HN: What's the current status of Web Development

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Been away from web development area for around 4 years, now I am picking up for my own company and projects

would like to ask HN what's the current status of the web development ?

Specifically, what are the backend API framework, what are the frontend Framework, what are the CSS frameworks

(ps: before I left, I was working on React + python flask + bootstrap )

I also left about 2 years ago so maybe not the best to comment but I'll give my biased take. As far as I can tell it's pretty similar to when you left. React is still number 1 and maturing, Vue is number 2. Dependency hell is still an issue in node and frontend. Typescript won, a lot of libraries are adopting it although your average project is probably 30-50% migrated to TS with a bunch of "any"s floating all over the place. Rails & Django are still pretty popular for MVPs, quite a lot of new developments in both. Go is used for a lot of smaller APIs and infurstructure tooling. Postgres is still the go-to. CSS in JS is accepted (at least in the React world). Kubernetes is delpoyed far more than it probably should be. I predict backend is on the edge of "microservice fatigue".

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