whats the reason behind all this endless JS race that s been going on for years. I only had to use it once and it felt like everything was prematurely overabstracted ending in more code doing less. It made me run back to php+jquery, which is more like a car engine rather than an modern abstract art statue.
is it the overabundance of programmers? the fact that it makes them look busy? people liking wasting time recompiling most of the day? overengineering making people feel superior? it certainly doesnt feel healthy and makes one question whether the whole SV startup ecosystem is a cargo cult built on shaky grounds by people who are just apeing each other on everything, from design to backend.
JavaScript based webdev continually makes the next thing you have to do seem easy if you just use this framework, that approach, the latest library for it, and the build tool that finally handles this case. It's a textbook example of the combination of the sunk cost fallacy and short-termism: you continually make amazing web stuff happen quickly by going into just a bit more technical debt. It's a technical debt pyramid scheme. The further you get, the more you're trapped by your previous decisions of convenience. It's an ecosystem addicted to quick fixes, no matter the cost.
Webdev shifted from making pages of content with some interactivity to web apps that live and maintain state on the client and occasionally query backend for some data. You don't need or particularly benefit from modern JS frameworks for somewhat interactive pages. But you absolutely can't do web apps with ad hoc jQuery and maintain your sanity.
is it the overabundance of programmers? the fact that it makes them look busy? people liking wasting time recompiling most of the day? overengineering making people feel superior? it certainly doesnt feel healthy and makes one question whether the whole SV startup ecosystem is a cargo cult built on shaky grounds by people who are just apeing each other on everything, from design to backend.