What task takes up 80% of your web development time but shouldn't?

Question

Been analyzing my development workflow and noticed that certain tasks eat up disproportionate time:- Context switching between IDE/browser/DevTools - Debugging environment inconsistencies - Reformatting code to match project conventionsCurious what repetitive tasks other developers face that shouldn't be so time-consuming in 2024.Especially interested in hearing from React/Next.js developers.

solardev · Accepted Answer

For me it's the constant scaffolding of basic things, like setting up a parallelized rate limited fetch and merge across several paginated endpoints. Or setting up a basic Next plus MUI instance.
I'm sure I could make a template or lib for it, I just haven't. ChatGPT gets me 80% of the way there every time but the last 20% is always a bit annoying.
Wish there was an easier way to templatize a project for easy reuse, but with constant auto updating of the basic packages. Like a mini/meta Next/Vite of my own.

jeffreygoesto · Answer

Having left UI standards and trying to be an app.

watersb · Answer

Procrastination.

sibeliuss · Answer

cmd + space + chatgpt desktop app = 80% of routine tasks are gone. its crazy