Why Modern Web Development is a Mess

Forketyfork
4 min readJan 28, 2022

This isn’t yet another article about the bad parts of JavaScript, the heaviness of your node_modules folder, crazy webpack build times, or thousands of trivial leftpad-like imported modules. I‘d like to look at the modern web from a different perspective.

From the perspective of UI automation.

I was working on UI automation for a while. The task is seemingly simple —…

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Forketyfork

Software developer @ JetBrains Space. I write technical how-to articles and occasional rants on software development in general. Opinions are my own.