> Is that complexity necessary or artificially inflated?
100% inflated and ego-based. How do I know? After years of struggling to understand the increasingly complex front-end space, I decided to build my own full-stack framework [1] to check my own opinions weren't left-field.
Here's the harsh truth: it doesn't need to be as complex as it's made out to be. Not even close. I can speculate as to why (ego, job security, etc) but ultimately the punchline is that all of the APIs and a lot of the code under the hood are pointless Rube Goldberg machines.
People don't want to hear that because they're invested emotionally in a lot of these tools, but from direct experience doing multi-year research and building of a framework, it's all a scam.
100% inflated and ego-based. How do I know? After years of struggling to understand the increasingly complex front-end space, I decided to build my own full-stack framework [1] to check my own opinions weren't left-field.
Here's the harsh truth: it doesn't need to be as complex as it's made out to be. Not even close. I can speculate as to why (ego, job security, etc) but ultimately the punchline is that all of the APIs and a lot of the code under the hood are pointless Rube Goldberg machines.
People don't want to hear that because they're invested emotionally in a lot of these tools, but from direct experience doing multi-year research and building of a framework, it's all a scam.
[1] https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick