Will websites get obsolete ?

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UurR77

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UurR77
Apr 5 20 Comments

Hello,

I was thinking a lot about this now. We all know that apps literally took over the traffic from websites. In most general cases people prefer apps over websites. I’m not considering ai as a threat right now.

My stipulation is, there may come a day when the cost of having a website ( engineers, managers, etc) up and running exceeds the profit they gain from sales done of website. Then there could be a snowball effect that would result in companies giving up on websites. On the contrary, i know that websites will always be shown on search engine and apps couldn’t get a share of that slice.

What do you think? Will website get obsolete ?
Are the frontend devs at risk in the future?

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  • Google
    shitmypant

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    shitmypant
    ur high out of ur mind
    Apr 5 5
    • Google
      IKXE36

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      IKXE36
      As someone working in Ads, the google.com website will stick around for at least a year if not longer...
      Apr 5
    • Google
      kWeller

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      kWeller
      Google is already building stuff to get app streaming infra. Stream apps from the cloud. Websites will die to offer cloud based apps which become more engaging and more native.
      Apr 5
  • NVIDIA
    TCorGTF0

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    TCorGTF0
    Not gonna happen
    Apr 5 2
  • Toast
    lil baby

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    lil baby
    in truest sense frontend can be website, app, or whatever UI you want it to be. focus on building employable skills

    in past couple of decades world went from static HTML pages, dynamic webpages built with php, to pages rendered with angular/react...changes are natural
    Apr 5 3
    • Toast
      lil baby

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      lil baby
      it can be a lateral move too, as long as you have sufficient transferrable skills. plenty of people go back and forth between different dev areas
      Apr 5
    • Apple / Eng
      phase

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       phase
      React Native and SwiftUI are both similar to React web. Even without those similarities, UI/UX problem spaces and thinking will be similar so your front-end skills should largely transfer to different platforms.
      Apr 5
  • They won’t end but will continue to consolidate. Top 10 website will get 80% of traffic
    Apr 5 0
  • New / Eng
    jWGn88

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     jWGn88
    Even it actually happens, Moving from websites to app not crazy amount of work. Backend mostly will be untouched
    Apr 5 2
    • Walmart
      UurR77

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      UurR77
      OP
      But lets say someone has 5 years of experience in web then if they would have to start from a lower level when they switch to app development right?
      Apr 5
    • New / Eng
      jWGn88

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       jWGn88
      Not familiar with app development but is htmlcssreactvue experience absolutely not useful for app dev? For example from react to react native, they r related right?
      Apr 5