[runawaybottle]

Check this out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21599546

You can do a lot in just one file. Don’t try to grok these stacks. Make one Node.js Express server, and write all your routes in one file. Then send down one index.html file with one js/css, and write everything there. Start with just three files.

Look, I’m not saying industrial level frontend isn’t needlessly complicated. Don’t go down the path of learning a stack until you can build a functioning app with nothing at all.

I don’t know Haskell, but I have a pretty good idea of what the person is doing, all in one file. When you take up a whole stack, then you have to figure out how all the legos connect. I wouldn’t bother with that initially.

You have enough experience to already know that the holy grail to all of this is getting to the point where you can say no to 70% of what the stack offers. Even better if you can get to a point where you can say no to what people say you need to use in our current time (all the frontend stuff from 2013 is still totally fine for building a non trivial app in 2021).