[jkestner]

To paraphrase Michael Pollan: Write Javascript, not too much, mostly frameworkless.

I sympathize with trying to keep up with tools. I also sympathize with users who don't care about fancy interfaces nearly as much as they care about the information they're looking for. Load times and sluggish UI are killing the web relative to native mobile apps. We're offloading too much of the time-cost to users.

I won't make web apps any more. I use Javascript to add a little bit of ease to website functions, and I can do that with raw Javascript and if it gets complicated, jQuery.