The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era | The Spicy Web

The age of frontend JavaScript frameworks eating the web world didn’t happen simply because some well-meaning developers found great DX. It happened because we were fed a line.

I’ll cut to the chase. I’m angry. Pretty damn angry. Why am I so angry? Because for every article about modern web development which comes along like this: The Market for Lemons – Alex Russell we get an article (or many articles!) like this: The case for frameworks – Laurie Voss 🤦🏻‍♂️ But let’s be clear. I’m not angry at Laurie Voss personally. (OK, maybe a little. 😏) I’m mad because I’ve been hearing this line of thinking for years from many different sources, and—just like Alex—I feel in the strongest possible terms that it’s “astonishingly, gobsmackingly effective bullshit.” The Future i

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