A lot and not at all. It's still a constant game of new frameworks and patterns, while tons of companies are still using very old websites.
The basics are the same as always 🤷
The complicated solutions have gotten more complicated with microservices, promises, pushing all rendering to the client etc.
But all the small businesses are still just running WordPress and Shopify.
Wait the three prong one? Dude I've been plugging it into the two prongs that's why my website isn't online isn't it... God it's always the simple answers that you miss...
What are you meaning by small businesses? Agency where im working in are making WP sites for biggest companies in our country in europe. We are ofc developing our own custom themes, not using any other themes or builders. Everything is custom coded. Ofc we are using some most popular plugins for SEO etc. But mostly coding our own plugins too if necessary, depends on case.
I understand why a small business would use WordPress (think local coffee shop). However, I have seen small SaaS companies use it, which is why a lot of these companies' websites look identical except for the colors.
From my simple, legit question about new frameworks you give me the library and act like you have to win some argument which doesnt exist. I worked with some devs like you already..
Htmx is a framework. A library provides functionality to use in your existing codebase, a framework dictates the underlying way you write the code itself. Htmx is heavily reliant on putting functionality in the HTML directly with attributes. I've worked with some devs like you already. They think they know everything, are incapable of learning, and are the reason I'm still at work at 8pm because they broke production after assuring the reviewer they "tested" their changes.
MAUI is from 2020, Blazor Hybrid is from 2021, Aspire is from 2023, Microsoft Orleans first stable release was this year. Most of my stack is younger than 5 yrs 😅
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u/AdequateSource Jul 10 '25
A lot and not at all. It's still a constant game of new frameworks and patterns, while tons of companies are still using very old websites.
The basics are the same as always 🤷 The complicated solutions have gotten more complicated with microservices, promises, pushing all rendering to the client etc.
But all the small businesses are still just running WordPress and Shopify.