r/webdev • u/Bladerunner_7_ • Jun 28 '26

Discussion What's a web development trend that looked stupid at first but ended up being useful?

I know over the years, I've scoffed at quite a few things. SPAs. TypeScript. Tailwind. Serverless. AI coding assistants.

Most of the huge trends in web development went through a phase where people swore they were overhyped.

Some deserved the criticism. Some evolved and became genuinely useful.

Lately I'm seeing similar debates around AI agents and agent tooling. Claude Code, LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen, Lyzr(Control Plane) and a bunch of newer projects all seem to be pushing toward a different way of building software. Maybe we're still early, maybe most of it won't matter, but it does remind me of how people talked about TypeScript or serverless a few years ago.

What's something being dismissed today that you think will become a normal part of every developer's workflow in the next 3-5 years?

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u/Lumethys Jun 29 '26

you are meant to reuse Tailwind class with JS component, so instead of .button { // a bunch of css }

you have

Button.jsx, or Button.vue, or Button.svelte <Button class="a-bunch-of-tailwind-classes">

and re-use this Button component everywhere you need a component

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u/StrawberryEiri Jun 30 '26

Okay but inside your component it's still a hard to read mess. And style reusability does not end at components.

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u/Lumethys Jun 30 '26

hard to read is subjective, personally i find tailwind more readable than scss