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I'm quite happy we don't have one dominant framework in JS. We have good tools for specific tasks and glueing them together is easy in JS land. Not having a big framework dictate your options is actually quite liberating.

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Yup, I much prefer PHP to js hell but laravel is great until you want to actually build something novel. Then it gets in your way with a million layers of indirection all the way down.

JS is much more friendly when it comes to plug n play.

Can you give an example of this? Laravel is very modular - you don't have to use it all if you want to call out to something more complex.

Plugging in your own thing is like swimming against the current.

It's nothing specific, just everything becomes harder.

Maybe this is good for your pet projects, but on an industry level I can't imagine constant arguing about which flavor of week every special snowflake within the team wants to use.

You will need a good code standards and style guide regardless of framework. Together with today's linters this should be a solved problem.

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