This is my surface level thought on modern front ends. I've always thought these modern front end frameworks built in javascript were a solution to the online growth being exponential. If you think how exponential the Internet has grown, vs amount of developers available... the growth of each didn't match. There was a problem. So making a front end in an easy language was the solution. I'm sure this is something you could go into great detail about, in a sense that these allowed microservice apps to grow at a very fast rate. Maybe I don't know enough about the history of it all but that's how I've always felt.
I don't consider Javascript to be an easy language. It's kind of a Frankenstein of a language that they just kept adding to and patching up from the early days of the internet. From a language standpoint, it's gotten better in some ways, but in other ways it's hard to work with and I think the one of the biggest issues is its such a moving target. The frameworks and build tools associated change in a matter of months making it difficult to keep your program up to date with best practices. There's a lot of tire spinning. Some time goes by and that old microservice you had running for a while can't handle minor updates because the dependencies all broke in some meaningful way. Ain't nobody got time for that!
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This is my surface level thought on modern front ends. I've always thought these modern front end frameworks built in javascript were a solution to the online growth being exponential. If you think how exponential the Internet has grown, vs amount of developers available... the growth of each didn't match. There was a problem. So making a front end in an easy language was the solution. I'm sure this is something you could go into great detail about, in a sense that these allowed microservice apps to grow at a very fast rate. Maybe I don't know enough about the history of it all but that's how I've always felt.
I don't consider Javascript to be an easy language. It's kind of a Frankenstein of a language that they just kept adding to and patching up from the early days of the internet. From a language standpoint, it's gotten better in some ways, but in other ways it's hard to work with and I think the one of the biggest issues is its such a moving target. The frameworks and build tools associated change in a matter of months making it difficult to keep your program up to date with best practices. There's a lot of tire spinning. Some time goes by and that old microservice you had running for a while can't handle minor updates because the dependencies all broke in some meaningful way. Ain't nobody got time for that!