I am a traditional web front end developer (Vanilla Javascript, HTML, CSS), and back end (Node.js, PHP)
what para-dime shift is needed (if any) to develop sites/dapps here?
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Everything in a site is done client side. Users have a universal login directly to the network. From there, any app/site that the user uses will read and write to the user’s private account data that is stored on the network, or read and write public data that any user of the network can see. Different apps/sites can use the same data - data doesn’t get locked away into separate solos for each site as we have on the internet today. Sites need to request permissions. There will also be some consideration needed for how much safecoin it will cost to store data on the network (we don’t have details on how that UX is expected to work yet).
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The SAFE Dev Hub website is a good place to start. The tutorials on there show how to make a basic Node.js Native or Web app, amongst other things. Bear in mind though that the APIs are likely to change over the next few months as different data types are introduced. However the principles should remain the same. I think the APIs are considered relatively low level, so you might have to do things a bit more explicitly than you’re used to.
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Welcome @benzmuircroft 
Also take a look at SafenetworkJS which is a layer I built on top of the SAFE APIs. It is still in development but used in some of my projects (SAFE Drive for example). If you do look at this I welcome any feedback.
As noted, the low level SAFE APIs are going to change a bit, but in addition Maidsafe are building their own higher level APIs (see the SAFE CLI in last week’s Dev update). That might change the usefulness of SafenetworkJS.
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For a simple frontend webpage(js, css, html) there is no difference in development. You can actually just upload your existing website files to the SAFE Network by using the Web Hosting Manager and it will work.
For backend code there is no support yet. It will be in the future by using ‘secure enclaves’
https://safenetwork.tech/roadmap/#secure-enclaves
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@benzmuircroft There are demos/tutorials using:
- Vue.js (SAFE Web App Tutorial)
- React Static - fast/compact static websites (DWeb Blog)
- sveltejs (SAFE Sveltejs Demo)
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I see what you mean, and yes we will probably see a lot of these hybdrid solutions. But I think he was more interested in what SAFE itself has to offer.