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The post feels more like a rant, like the author has a beef with some sort of a project or a client. Even a static blog is easier to manage with tools rather than writing it in pure HTML.

I have my personal website running on svelte. When I decided to have a blog, I quickly came up with a solution to use markdown to html converter and just added a couple of routes to existing setup and voila, the blog is up and running. I don't care that it depends on several packages. Publishing a post takes just a push to my repo.

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No it doesn’t. This post reads like someone tired of working in an industry run by extremely insecure people that just need a little help at absolutely every step of the journey. Other industries call that unqualified.

Seems like you’re projecting, to me.

I have a personal web app that I wrote in react 16 with babel set up by createReactApp directly from the react docs. it’s been stuck with a list of features I want to add in my spare time but all 3 of those have bitrotted out so that in my minor spare time over the last 2 years or so, instead of being able to add some feature, I spend 2 to 3 hours trying to update it to the latest, fail, and no progress is made.

my latest attempt was to see if one of the LLMs could do it. nope.

I’ve thought about starting from scratch but don’t have the time

Yeah. The frontend world is a mess. I also faced similar issue with my personal website. Now I just keep my packages versions up to date and do any breaking changes updates as soon as possible. It's annoying, but it's better this way than having to re-write/refactor the whole thing every time.

I think you will have a much better time if you generate a new, empty React project with Vite and just drop your existing components into it. I almost suggested not updating at all and keeping your dependencies as they are, but createReactApp was too much of a bloated mess even in its heyday.

You're clearly a better person than the author then.

They said at the start they were going on personal experience. I relate deeply to what they're saying: it's most definitely not a rant/beef against another project/client, it's most definitely the learnings of someone who's been producing personal websites for decades, has kicked themselves a few times in the process and can sarcastically poke fun at their journey in front of others.

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