Allen Pike “after about a decade away from regularly writing JavaScript” comes back to take a look. I think these points are all correct:
- React has evolved from a little experiment thought to boost performance, into a sprawling ecosystem thought to hinder performance.
- Platform features like ES Modules,
fetch, view transitions, andasync/awaithave made the web a nicer platform to build directly for- Serverless has gone from a wild new idea to well-understood
- Cursor is especially good at working in TypeScript, which mostly eliminates boilerplate tedium
- Modern build and packaging tools like vite, pnpm, and esbuild have made the tooling around JS nicer and much faster
- All of the above has taken universal JS – sharing code between the client and the server – from barely-possible to well-supported
The goal was to see if there was an obvious (boring, trodden) framework, and the answer is… kinda?
