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Frontend developer here. Everytime I need to create some sort of rich API I discovered that the last framework I learnt was "no longer valid". Happened with CakePHP, Webforms and now ASP.Net 2.

My feeling is that backend development is overcomplicated/overbloated. Specially with the big players (AWS, Play). Lucky me, I found my way with PHP. Simple, elegant, lightweight and fast enough. You don't need a lot of complicated boilerplate, nor learning a new template language or syntax.

+1 for riotjs.com

I still make static websites with bootstrap and jquery and host them on Amazon S3

They look great, they perform well and I make money from that big buy button connected to stripe.

But how can you look in the mirror in the morning and admit that your node_modules directory is less than 500Mb? Joke aside, if it works, it works. The simpler the better. JS is in a phase transition state currently that will get better over time, when we can finally write ES6/7 without compilation and use modules natively as well.

yeah, I put my node.js stripe processing on a heroku server for like $1. Not concerned about the node_modules size :)