Nolan Lawson

Developer Nolan Lawson has published a piece asking why web developers so often bypass native browser capabilities in favour of frameworks and libraries. The article revisits the long-running 'use the platform' debate, which urges developers to lean on built-in web standards instead of adding layers of dependency. The argument has struck a chord, drawing hundreds of upvotes and renewed discussion among front-end developers about framework fatigue and the true cost of abstraction.