Reckoning: Part 1 — The Landscape – Infrequently Noted
August 13, 2024
It would be tragic if public sector services adopted the JavaScript-heavy stacks that frontend influencers have popularised. Framework-based, “full-stack” development is now the default in Silicon Valley, but should obviously should be avoided in universal services. Unwieldy and expensive stacks that have caused agony in the commercial context could never be introduced to the public sector with any hope of success.Right?
Source: Reckoning: Part 1 — The Landscape – Infrequently Noted
The last decade or so has seen the rise of the smartphone, and the growing dependence many households, particularly lower socio-economic households, on these devices for their online lives.
We’ve also seen the rise of government digital service delivery–pioneered by the UK’s GDS, the USDS, and in Australia the (sadly a shadow of its original self DTO–now Digital Transformation Agency.
But the last decade has also seen the rise of framework driven development and a reliance of JavaScript.
Alex Russell has this four part series exploring the intersection and consequences of these trends.
Part one is out now. I recommend it to everyone developing for the Web. I also imagine it won’t be easy reading.
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