[charrondev]

As someone that bounced between Android development and webdev, who now does webdev full time, I can say the my biggest 2 complaints were always the build system and tooling surrounding the ecosystem. Luckily things have changed a lot in the web development world in the last two years. TypeScript and Visual Studio code deliver the autocomplete that I've wanted in web development for a long time and bring static typing to javascript, as well as handling the transpiling of new javascript features to older syntax all directly in the editor.

Webpack's hot module reloading is also incredibly useful if you take the time to set it up. You don't even need to hit 'go'. When you save a file, it incrementally compiles that module, and swaps it out on the client. This process is normally faster than me tabbing over the other window, and if you have you're project set up correctly, preserves the app state if it can.