> I’ve seen it happen in various degrees to React, Docker, Microservices, Kubernetes, Rust and I’m sure I’m forgetting others.

MFC, vb3,4,5,6, entity framework (every version), OLE, COM, DCOM, ActiveX (all of which were basically the same thing), as2, as3, PureMVC, Cairngorm, Flex, asp, asp server controls, DAO, asp.net, php (and every php framework), Cold Fusion, CFCs, JSP, servelets, beans, spring, dojo, jQuery, ext, Google's JWC, backbone, moo tools, knockout, meteor, angular, angular (x), react

Just off the top of my head of hype trains I've ridden.

Now I'm all about simple.

Express + web components + postgres is the magic combination of simplicity, time to market, performance and community for me these days.