[ForSpareParts]

I really do believe this is getting better -- though not at a rate where it's obvious yet if you aren't plugged in.

A few years ago there were tons of frameworks and they all worked a bit differently. New shit every week. IMO that's because no one had really figured out the right paradigm yet. Now we have (it's components) and the framework race has slowed way down (it's pretty much React, Vue, and Angular now). Even big changes in React like Hooks didn't break backwards compatibility. You can move pretty slow and steady on that front, if you want to.

Tooling is the next frontier. It's become obvious that compiling js in js itself is just not performant enough for large applications. We need a faster solution. There are a few contenders right now (esbuild, swc, bun; vite wraps esbuild) but I suspect within two years we'll have a pretty clear winner.

In general I think things move faster when we haven't found the right ideas yet, and that's why backend is more stable -- it's just older. There has been more time to iterate and figure out what works and what doesn't. Frontend will probably always be more chaotic than backend, but I think it'll be much less so as we start to agree on the web want it to look like.