(API-less) react websites today will still be around in 10 years time. The brows... | Hacker News

Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

login

kall on June 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Advice to Young Web Developers

(API-less) react websites today will still be around in 10 years time. The browser has never and likely will never break JS backwards compatibility.

cpburns2009 on June 19, 2020 [–]

Chrome is slowly removing support for synchronous XMLHttpRequests [1] [2]. It's eventual removal could very well break legacy web applications.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/12/chrome-80-...

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30876093/will-chrome-and...

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact