Specifically for internal tools, this is a much efficient way.
With anything more than html, css the complexity is not worth the return.
We've done away with everything that needs internet to build or deploy (npm, dockerhub, brew, whatever). Primarily for the security theatre around package updates.
So much simpler now. Backend is very well integrated with the entire ecosystem. Exact same setup as production. Folks who build internal admin tools tend to (and they should) know that part much better.
Everything is instantaneous.
We avoided all frontend libs. Some (like moment.js) needed extra work on the API side, but that took an hour at best to find an existing backend method to use.
All of the admin UI stuff is like < 100 kb. In 1 repo. Everything works without javascript, in all browsers (including lynx).
Night and day contrast against all previous versions where we used a mix of jquery, then angular and finally react with all their baggage and unexplainable dependencies to utter dismay.
Clearly the case of using the wrong tools but good lord did it take a while to get rid of the FUD around html only tools.
With anything more than html, css the complexity is not worth the return.
We've done away with everything that needs internet to build or deploy (npm, dockerhub, brew, whatever). Primarily for the security theatre around package updates.
So much simpler now. Backend is very well integrated with the entire ecosystem. Exact same setup as production. Folks who build internal admin tools tend to (and they should) know that part much better.
Everything is instantaneous.
We avoided all frontend libs. Some (like moment.js) needed extra work on the API side, but that took an hour at best to find an existing backend method to use.
All of the admin UI stuff is like < 100 kb. In 1 repo. Everything works without javascript, in all browsers (including lynx).
Night and day contrast against all previous versions where we used a mix of jquery, then angular and finally react with all their baggage and unexplainable dependencies to utter dismay.
Clearly the case of using the wrong tools but good lord did it take a while to get rid of the FUD around html only tools.