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Ahhh… lovely serveless cloud SPA crashing in your freaking face with a stack trace.

We’re being so cheated with all this marketing bullshit.

Had you used a decent web framework you’d at least show a proper error page and get sent a notification about the problem.

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You can also show a proper error page (or continue) through edge functions[1]. They just didn't set any up. So the chances of them also doing so in another framework and caring about being notified is slim.

1. https://docs.netlify.com/edge-functions/optional-configurati...

Not everything needs to be a serverless SPA, that's the point.

Nobody is saying everything needs to be serverless. I'm addressing the point that going the traditional route doesn't negate the work required to implement a custom error page and handle rewrites on error.

Yes they are and the promise cited as a justification is always "automatic scalability", "increased reliability", "decreased downtime".

This is from the first google result on "Why move to cloud":

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/03/12/wh...

I think a lot of people do advocate that everything be serverless, but at the very least the industry as a whole defaults to that. You now need a good reason not to deploy bleeding-edge $FRAMEWORK SPAs to serverless edge cloud functions or whatever they're called this month, rather than only using them when it makes sense.

yeah there's a lot of fashion trends that this industry follows and it drives me insane.

by "fashion" I mean new, hot frameworks, architectures, providers, or anything which is chosen because it looks fun or might allow some resumes to be meatier. no one makes solutions for their problems anymore, they make problems for their currently-favorite solution.

I've been guilty of it myself in the past but I'm increasingly getting to a point, especially for side projects that I intend to make a few dollars off of, where I just want to deploy a compiled-language site to a VM and point a domain at it.

You can do everything. Even if just using assembler.

Popular web frameworks such as Laravel, rails or Django do this by default, and a ton other “small things”.

That’s the point.

When I visited just now, I saw a message saying the edge function has crashed.

There's actually quite a few ways to prevent this without breaking the bank.

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