[theodorejb]

I miss the days when JavaScript frameworks could be built with a simple npm install and executing a Grunt/Gulp file. Now to build Angular I need Yarn, Java, Bazel, and hundreds of megabytes of additional tooling downloaded by the build script. On a slow connection it takes ages to download everything, and even then the build often fails (on Windows I have yet to get it working successfully).

Edit: I'm referring to building the framework itself (e.g. to contribute a fix). Building an Angular project with the CLI works quite well.

[teeray]

I miss the days when JavaScript frameworks required only a script tag.

[ur-whale]

I miss the days when Javascript didn't exist.

[lenkite]

Those days are BAAACK. Use Vue ! (The best JS framework in the world!)

<script type="module"> import Vue from 'https://unpkg.com/vue@2.6.0/dist/vue.esm.browser.min.js'; new Vue({ ... }); </script>