This is an extremely vitriolic piece that it seems should have been titled "The Sad State of Node and React. I have never used React, but got married to Angula

This is an extremely vitriolic piece that it seems should have been titled "The Sad State of Node and React. I have never used React, but got married to Angular a few years ago, which I'm guessing is basically the same? Either way, these are all choices that you have. I've never used node on the backend or the frontend. As is mentioned in the article, you can still fire up a text editor, write some html and CSS and have perfectly good website. Tools that are used beyond that are all developers' choice.