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Funnily, due to this, i often find an open source app that is way better than whatever annoyed me.

Just today i used an Adobe product that got me raging. Within minutes i installed an oss equivalent that was a joy to use in comparison.

It's an interesting trend.

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Is it normal to design a database without writing an analysts first but basing it on the design?

As others said, in-depth design is often skipped, especially if the dev team started very small. Sounds like your intuition is right, though - the lack of design bit them on the ass when they realized they missed a part.

I have also been laughed at when I suggested a UML diagram in the past. However, it is helpful. For more visually oriented people even more so.

I'd suggest to go ahead and do it, unless your boss is adamant that it is a waste of time. When they see the result they might be happy.

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How Functional Programming Shaped (and Twisted) Frontend Development

Great article. The move back to more web standard-focused work has been a joy. I just used the <dialog> element, awesome. Vanilla JavaScript has improved with new APIs. WebComponents are nice, though they are more focused on creating elements on the fly.

With all this there has been an increasing appreciation of static pages - a large share of the web simply does not need backend logic at all. This makes development and deployment trivial, with superb ux performance.

React is an impressive piece of technology, and has its use cases, but as the article states "do not throw away the baby with the bath water."

The only constant is movement.