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I consider myself to traditionally be a backend engineer, though this has more been something I fell into rather than chose.

I admit I feel I share some of your frustrations. In the past I have written production frontends in Angular and experimented with Vue and React. Out of all of them I found React to be the most enjoyable, but even then I still struggled with project setup and found the tooling confusing. I even quite like TS as a language, but I feel it's still quite limited by the fact it transpiles to JS.

Recently, I discovered yew [0]. It is a Rust framework for building frontends using wasm. I really appreciate the robustness that Rust brings such as ownership checks and ADTs. I don't think it's for everyone, but it may be worth looking at if you perhaps find modern frontend development confusing frustrating. I've found it to be quite the breath of fresh air.

If you do decide to have a look I found the examples [1] and getting started guide [2] very informative.

[0] https://github.com/yewstack/yew

[1] https://github.com/yewstack/yew/tree/master/examples

[2] https://yew.rs/docs/en/getting-started/project-setup