Miss those days when web development used to be easy...

Now the react, react-router, redux, server-side-rendering, redux-form and nodejs...making me crazy.

And oh how can you forget the fucking webpack.

Someone please kill me.

I think these days its mutch more difficult to start building websites etc. because today you have tonns of frameworks and everybody is saying use this, use that. And most of them are more difficult to learn than Plain Html, CSS & js.

@pixelwiese exactly. 😭

@Artemix is correct there is nothing stopping you from building simple flat websites. Now if you want to build a web app that is more than just a website that has static text. That is when you need the frameworks et al. They are still complicated though usually cause you have a non trivial problem you need to solve :)

Read their docs and related books and all is going to be just fine.

React is nice.
I'm happier building with it than not.

At first, I was excited about frameworks. I saw the potential. After watching a few videos about Laravel, vue js, etc, I was stoked! I'd tell people I can create an entire website by typing a few commands in a console. I can even populate it with content, videos, etc, with just a dozen or so lines of code.

Then I wake up.

Actually... Things are getting easier in the last two years. More stuff but also more docs and more best practices and good approaches.

If a library doesn't have some simple .is or .min.js files I can just download then I'm not interested. All that crap takes an age to setup and over complicates the whole process compared to say nuget.

Frameworks exist to make you and your code easier to replace.