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by laacz 3552 days ago
As a person who has to build a relatively simple webapp from time to time, it's tiresome. I usually take a look around - what's trendy. It results into lost night, since I learn that everything requires two times more stuff than six months ago.

In the end I go with vanilla JavaScript and whatever new APIs I can use and polyfill.

No, wait. I made a webapp with React. While occasionally seeing Flux and friends mentioned, I was strong. I went with vanilla ReactJS.

I mean, those web stacks just get obsolete too soon. Your super tuned gulp setup will be obsolete in a year or two. What will you do then? Re-learn all new things?

It seems to me that there is a frontend development stack bubble coming. When I had to change bootstrap's base font size, I had to download and learn awful amounts of stuff. Which is on my machine. And I will never use it again.