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> you have to use react, redux, install 10+ npm modules, etc... just to make a POST request back to your internal API!).

Or just use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?

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I see this line of thought floated a lot. Go build a fully dynamic app used by internal teams with just those three tools and tell me how it goes after you've been maintaining and building on it for a while.

Those are good building blocks but they're simply not sufficient if you are building a 'Web App' and not a 'Website'.

Also I'll cut off the inevitable, "The web was not built for this and it shouldn't become a place for apps." The world disagrees, I disagree and most people developing on the web disagree.

And I'll raise that we should be moving more towards the web being the best universal distribution platform for software.

> Go build a fully dynamic app

We're talking about internal tooling for businesses here, this isn't necessary at all.

I disagree with the person you're responding to, PHP and HTML should be more than enough for such things.

> We're talking about internal tooling for businesses here, this isn't necessary at all.

Why treat internal 'customers' any differently than forward facing ones? Building great internal tools can dramatically improve your teams' workflows and solve meaningful business problems.

Right on! This is exactly correct, you remove so much friction for internal teams by building high quality apps.

This is clueless for reasons Grimm espouses quite clearly in the sibling post. It doesn't scale for anything other than the smallest of projects.

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