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As a backend developer, I was away from frontend development. My personal experience with HTML, CSS, and JS in 2007 was quite painful, so I made the decision to give it up for good. Some other day, I had to have a look at JS code to patch already written and uglified client code. Yet, it was not that big of a deal. Hacking to make things done is nothing nearly as draining as proper development.

And here I am. On holidays, I thought it would be nice to know something about frontend development. As a result, I ended up with React and TypeScript. Next.js, to be precise. And Tailwind to make it appealing to the eyes. This blog I made using Astro. And that’s all for now.

The most peculiar thing was the introduction of SST. It’s an open-source project based on OpenNext, aiming to provide a Vercel-like experience for free. So, now we have it: AWS-based serverless projects in almost any language. (AWS allows the use of Docker images and custom Lambda runtimes, so you can even write it in C++ or Rust; the key to keeping customers happy lies in minimal waiting times, which are non-existent for binaries without a managed runtime.) It’s also nice that it manages every other needed aspect, such as routing via API Gateway and Route 53.