The future and development of front-end and WeChat mini programs

WeChat Mini Program released or leaked, and was swiped on the Internet circle. Many people are shouting that this is another great victory for HTML5, but is this really the case? As more details are revealed, we learn that WeChat mini programs are based on technologies similar to React Native. React Native is not strictly an HTML5 technology. On the mobile side, HTML5 technology is approximately equal to hyper. Its biggest feature is that it is based on the browser kernel. The ambition of HTML5 is to cover all screens with browsers and dominate all developers with DOM. Being based on the browser kernel is the key. On the other hand, RN technology or WeChat applet does not depend on any browser kernel, but directly calls native components through a JS to native bridge. RN itself is a betrayal of HTML5. So, I think this is not so much a victory for HTML5 as a failure for HTML5.

However, whether it is HTML5, ReactNative, or WeChat applet, JavaScript technology is inseparable from it. Now, using JavaScript, you can use NodeJs for server side, HTML5 development, and mobile side. It can be said that JavaScript is everywhere you can see it. So, this is the best time for JavaScript engineers.

Entry battle

Looking at small programs from a technical perspective is nothing more than another wheel with some changes based on RN. Front-end wheels are everywhere these days. Compared with powerful wheels like Angular and React, the small program wheel is actually not worth mentioning and has not made any technical breakthroughs. However, behind the so-called wheel is the game of big manufacturers, and what they compete for is often an entrance.

The same is true for small programs. If you have a large number of users, you can have an entrance status. The rest is a way. The previous methods were official accounts, Moments, etc. Now the small program approach goes a step further and builds another layer of system based on the underlying operating system, thereby taking over the entry status of the operating system. This is the key. This is very similar to browsers and HTML5, which attempt to build their own ecosystem on the underlying operating system.

Chrome has developed chromebook for the great ideal of HTML5, so will WeChat develop WeChat mobile phone? Seeing the current situation of Chromebooks, I believe WeChat will think twice.

About UI, the life and death of the front-end

User Interface is a highly abstract concept. Not only abstract, but accurate. Accuracy lies in expressing what it is without agreeing on the form. In a broad sense, UI is more than just screens and graphics. As long as the computer can communicate with people, it is considered UI. In the past it was the command line (although many engineers still use the command line today), now it is the graphical interface. UI is becoming more and more powerful with the development of computer capabilities.

But with the rise of mobile Internet, the UI has become simpler. The change from simplicity to complexity is reversed. Will we really need a screen in the future?

I think the era of direct neural connection without an external screen will come, but this day is still far away depending on breakthroughs in many key technologies. Before this day comes, we actually have another option:

One day WeChat does not need an application account at all, because WeChat itself can do everything, and you can talk directly to the machine using natural language or voice. With the development of deep machine learning, this day is actually not far away. This day means that all front-end wheels such as HTML5 and react native will go silent, and the prosperity of the front-end will also come to an end. What will our front-end engineers do at that time? Don’t worry about so much, take advantage of the prosperity and continue to devote yourself to the big front-end era!

The future belongs to artificial intelligence and quantum computers.

In the future. . . Those that do not belong to humans, let artificial intelligence do it, we will be pigs.

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