[benboughton1]

I never really got the modern web app stack and Typescript/javascript compiling until I was forced to use it through Angular CLI. Then it sort of all made some sense. Having a defined structure in a complex stack helps novice people a lot.

Before that it was all open up index.html template and import my js files for my projects.

I am currently going through the same thing with Python/Django Rest Framework. Another fairly well defined toolbox that some wouldn't like - but it helps with learning good practices and you can lean on a community of developers that have thought long and hard about how things are well structured.