I feel sometimes that we are running in circles in front end development. We had a good thing: Then we burned, step on it, and then recreated it because it was the best way to do things in the end of the day. :(
But it’s not a circle, it’s an arc. If it were a circle, running as fast as you can in one direction would bring you back around to the former. Instead we hit the end of the swing and backpedal until we remember why we were going this direction in the first place.
I feel like this is the inevitability of more and more tooling being released. Eventually there will be so much tooling that its hard to even work effectively as the signal to noise ratio plummets over time.
You should really try something like NextJs, all the nightmarish parts of FE development are abstracted away. It makes me hopeful for a future where all the config files and tools are invisible and you just develop applications. All the TS, HMR, SSR, etc. is invisible to you and managing it is the responsibility of the people developing the frameworks.
front end is such a shit show these days endless and then stuff runs for 1 month stable and instead of adresing real issues they come up with another rewrite.
But it’s not a circle, it’s an arc. If it were a circle, running as fast as you can in one direction would bring you back around to the former. Instead we hit the end of the swing and backpedal until we remember why we were going this direction in the first place.