I’m confused. I don’t know how long it’s been around, but I was introduced to this document when I got into Web programming 5-6 years ago. It explicitly states as one of the main goals,
”- (Is) suitable for deployment on modern cloud platforms, obviating the need for servers and systems administration;”.
I’m not familiar with all the authors, but they also say they came to these conclusions while developing on Heroku/ developing the platform itself. One of the earliest & biggest players in the ‘edge’ software market.
Can you elaborate on why you said “you don’t need edge”, when these ideas were intuited by folks creating apps on the edge? Because the way I’m reading it. It seems that this is a methodology perfectly suited (if not designed) for the edge?
I tend to agree with the article, that edge is the ‘future’. It might not be next month, or next year. But 5 years from now? It certainly seems to be trending in that direction. And for good reason I think.
Don’t get me wrong, I love nerding out with an Ubuntu server, configuring everything, and making my app run on the internet by hand. But dang if it isn’t a lot of work. Most hobby projects I start nowadays, I start from a simple static site approach, keeping in mind I’ll need to progress to more complexity/layers as need be, and throw it up on Netlify or Cloudflare Pages. It’s so efficient, it’s hard for me to imagine starting off a personal project any other way now.