One thing that always put me off about webpack is the default way it compiles your code. One of the ways is(was?) compiling code as _eval_(!!) statements and code as string. It is absolutely impossible to debug such code.
You were meant to rely on sourcemaps to get something on your debugger, but despite using the latest Chrome and developer tools at the time, I could never get it to work to actually debug sites.
I know Rollup, Vite and etc had a much easier time providing an easier developer experience because they rely on the browser's native ESM support, but I never could understand why webpack decided to mangle the code so badly.
CSS - Yes. JS - Not since 2015, I'll admit that is somewhat recent. HTML IDs - IDs are only good if they're unique. Since HTML had no notion of scope, they became global. Shadow DOM is the web platform answer for modularization, however any JS framework will allow you to slice your CSS and HTML in components.
Maybe those users simply aren't interested enough in your product? I think adding a simple note "click on the labels to see a demo" should be enough discoverability.
That's a kinda chicken and egg problem. I could argue that the more financing you give to people, the more they're gonna be willing to pay, so this actually drive prices up.
The best example I ever saw, and a great UI framework/component library on top of it, it's NaiveUI - www.naiveui.com . The code is all in JSX + Typescript, I didn't find a single component with html templates.
They tried that with Windows 8, the backslash was so enormous that I think they will be on the safe side and stick with 'familiarity' for the foreseeable future.
Win8 re-design was completely unrequested, most people hailed Win7 as the best Win UI iteration. Win 8 was a desperate, unguided attempt to make the Win UI fit on tablets, which failed, hence the full-screen "Start screen"
I found a link to a tool[0] that checks your PC compatibility with Windows 11, but it seems that many many people with powerful devices are getting a "No" answer.
So now we finally know that 2025 will be the year of the Linux desktop. There will be no more supported Windows version for older hardware, and Microsoft's love for Linux will finally blossom into forcing migration for millions of computers. This is the most interesting part of the announcement, and I hope that desktop Linux distros will take advantage of the situation. Of course, Microsoft could reverse course by then.
You were meant to rely on sourcemaps to get something on your debugger, but despite using the latest Chrome and developer tools at the time, I could never get it to work to actually debug sites.
I know Rollup, Vite and etc had a much easier time providing an easier developer experience because they rely on the browser's native ESM support, but I never could understand why webpack decided to mangle the code so badly.