Does anyone that has been developing fe code in the past few years felt that the pace of change has been overwhelming? I think weve finally settled down on a few tried and true frameworks for frontend development.
Note that there are still what I consider right tools and right conclusions. They are just under in terms of popularity and it feels like the industry is pushing me away from them.
In hindsight maybe the most annoying part isn't just the constant churn, but also how questions about x will be answered with: you should use y instead.
In some ways, it's sort of a blessing to avoid the javascript fatigue; however, in cases where we worked with clients with strong branding/UX guidelines with React components, it was really frustrating having to rebuild components entirely from scratch.
I think the largest changes are behind us - I think the big shift happened at the end of 2014 when Angular 2 was announced without backwards compatibility. It was also the time when Node had really been thrust forward as the backend language of choice in comparison to Ruby on Rails (from my experience).
Lots and lots and lots of people.
It feels like I woke from a coma and am trying to adjust to a new kind of world with flying cars except they don't really fly.
I mean, I feel insecure for writing CSS by hand, not using webpack/roll-up or a whole frontend build flow. I do like Mithril.js and Svelte though so perhaps I'll start using bits of that in my new project.