[jameshart]

100 lines of JavaScript and a backend consisting of stored procedures that output HTML does not sound like a ‘boring’ technology choice. It sounds very exciting - anyone approaching this codebase to do things to it will likely have lots of very interesting questions about how this system handles lots of things.

The solution might have good answers to all of those questions! It is perfectly possible to build a well-engineered system using those technologies!

But on almost every level the answers to those questions are going to be surprising.

Whereas the same thing built using webpack and a Ruby on Rails to Postgres backend will be much more legible.

‘Boring’ technology does not mean no technology.