CRUD is 'wierdly hard', in that 15 years ago, it was very easy to make a windows CRUD app in Visual Basic 6. An unskilled person could build such functionality at the same or faster speed than a quite skilled web developer.
Modern web appears to have made the simple hard. Where you could once just draw a GUI (a responsive GUI), now you need to know CSS, and a simple multi column layout in CSS is something that takes a beginner days to understand. Then you need to write javascript - but not simple javascript. You 'need' to use a framework like React which takes a newbie months to 'fully' understand.
What exactly do we get for all this new complexity?
This is a solved problem made unsolved.
There are a bunch of no-code or less-code solutions for this. Already basic ecomerce is achieved by just using these . But why not you app, front end dev reading this. Some will have good reasons, but many will not. I think you are writing it in react because you put a lot of effort into learning react and you are unable to even think of making a few low impact compromises and no-coding your next years work in a week. Why would an employee do that?
To be fair, you can still make a VB6 (or <insert favourite desktop app framework here>) app.
The problem is that for legitimate reasons, most of the processing no longer happens on the client device, so there’s suddenly a lot more complexity.
Making a desktop app that owns its data and is its the sole user is still easy. But most business requirements nowadays want a consumer product where people can interact with a subset of the data with a web UI or mobile app. That’s where the complexity comes in compared to VB6.
Modern web appears to have made the simple hard. Where you could once just draw a GUI (a responsive GUI), now you need to know CSS, and a simple multi column layout in CSS is something that takes a beginner days to understand. Then you need to write javascript - but not simple javascript. You 'need' to use a framework like React which takes a newbie months to 'fully' understand.
What exactly do we get for all this new complexity?
This is a solved problem made unsolved.
There are a bunch of no-code or less-code solutions for this. Already basic ecomerce is achieved by just using these . But why not you app, front end dev reading this. Some will have good reasons, but many will not. I think you are writing it in react because you put a lot of effort into learning react and you are unable to even think of making a few low impact compromises and no-coding your next years work in a week. Why would an employee do that?