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What are you referring to?

Ditto, if something extremely special happened in the years 2008-2012 with regard to frameworks, its cataclysmic significance seems to have escaped my notice. Rails? /shrugs

I think maybe they are just referring to the fact that in that era pretty much everyone had to build their own "framework" to get a big web app up, because there weren't a lot of established choices.

Between 2008-2012 there was ASP.Net Web Forms and MVC was becoming popular.

I didn’t play in the Java space back then but there were plenty of Java frameworks (https://dzone.com/articles/what-serverside-java-web-framewor...)

Ruby on Rails was released in 2005.

Knockout JS was introduced in 2010.

Django was released in 2005.

There was also Mojolicous for Perl also released in 2008.

This is what I meant, apologies for being cryptic. Web/JS development was absolute chaos, it just so happened that Facebook & Google won the day and we've converged on some "standards" in React/Vue/Angular, and I use that term very loosely.

The things I've seen. shudders

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