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Front end web development
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 12 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Front end web development, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Front-end developers keep reinventing scrolling, making it less smooth to use2025-02-09
- Too many overlapping frameworks; each needs another framework to be complete2023-12-24
- Components don't work with keyboard-only use and some information is conveyed by colour alone2023-09-24
- Hard to know what dependencies are installed because of transitive dependencies2023-08-23
- Page takes over 20 seconds to load2022-03-23
- Starting a personal site now requires learning many complex frameworks, build tools and containers2021-12-20
- Config keys get renamed or deprecated every few months, docs and answers go out of date2021-02-09
- Front-end tooling and jargon has become confusing and hard to understand2019-06-13
- Moving between sections forces a full app reload, causing repeated page loads2018-12-07
- Front end JS tooling ecosystem seems messy and unintuitive to the author2016-10-07
- Read online link loops back to the same page on Firefox Android2015-10-29
- Users must wait through a splash screen before the interface appears2015-05-19