# Lake Wobegon Web Development

DevFeed: [Lake Wobegon Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/lake-wobegon-web-development-28406.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eaf4.com/lake-wobegon-web-development/>)

Author: Edward Faulkner

Published: 2016-12-30T16:23:02Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Edward Faulkner](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/edward-faulkner.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [developer tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-tooling.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>)

Tags: [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [developer-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-tools.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [layout](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/layout.md>), [test](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/test.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>), [web-developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-developers.md>), [web-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-development.md>), [xss](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/xss.md>)

## AI overview

This commentary argues that comprehensive developer tools are essential for improving web user experiences. Because the average development team's skills will remain uneven as more people enter web development, tools can package best-practice knowledge and sensible defaults for building capable, reliable applications.

## Source excerpt

There is a strain of thought in the web development community that believes there's a tension between having comprehensive developer tools and delivering good user experiences: This is exactly backwards. At the scale of the entire web, better tools are the only way to deliver better experiences. The