[wjossey]

I had taken a nearly six year break from JavaScript coding until about 7 months ago. It has definitely come a long way and is pretty great to use now.

There’s still a lot of “pain” left in the build processes, transpiling, etc, but they’re less painful than they were half a decade ago. Those are also less specific to issues with the language, and more with how we need to use the language.

While not plain JS, I’d strongly recommend trying Vue if you’re getting back into JS. Is a true pleasure to use on a daily basis, and I never find myself fighting it. It makes writing non static sites with interactivity a breeze, and even when I’m building near static pages, I like how it helps me to organize my code (from a structure standpoint, it isn’t opinionated on this stuff).