At this point articles like this exhaust me beyond the point of caring. The popular tools are all reasonably good and in my experience the people complaining about the JavaScript ecosystem do so at the expense of getting stuff done.
Absolutely. Always eye-roll inducing, particularly the ones with bitter, angry, or in this case accusatory tones. JS solves problems people have, and it's not goin away anytime soon. I would love to be something other than a frontend code monkey, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. I just wish people here could shut the fuck up about it.
I’m guessing you’ve got a nice $1k+ dev box and high-speed internet?
The landscape for non SPAs don’t look great either - Amazon and other e-commerce sites come to mind. It’d be nice to show some examples of who’s doing things well while also being complex, and having a nice UI.
Yep, and my users do too. Most of these blog posts can be distilled down to "pick the right tools for the job".