I feel the same thing to be honest. As a mostly Backend Java guy I just have a hard time to get my head wrapped around the whole Frontend/SPA thing and the mult

I feel the same thing to be honest. As a mostly Backend Java guy I just have a hard time to get my head wrapped around the whole Frontend/SPA thing and the multitude of frameworks, styles, tools and so on; just don't help at all. It feels like everyone is reinventing the wheel constantly. Right now I try to write a simple react SPA and I use more libraries as if I would have done it in a tomcat webapp with static html pages. Documentation is relatively scarce or non-existent at all and in the end you end up looking at code on github. Hunting on Stackoverflow and blogs written by people and realize that there are 100+ ways to do the same thing. Looking at code would be fine, but looking at Javascript it's hard not to see how easy it is to write in different styles, which makes understanding the things harder. Also being in the middle of transitioning to ES6 makes it more complicated. Of course ES6 will be a big leap, but ES5 won't go anywhere anytime soon because of backward compatibility. So you will end up with overlaps and weird code. Sass definitely helps with css. React is a great way to develop nice SPA sites webapps. I don't know if the whole Frontend part is going in the right direction, but it will need some time to settle. For now it's more fragmented then the Android platform. And it really feels like we are trying to put a lot of stuff on top of protocols, tools and standards which were never meant for this in the first place. We might end up having such big scripts loaded for a page, that it could have been just a thick client instead of a web page. We threw away Java Apps, we threw away flash, we are throwing away jsp/jsf, PHP, etc... And now we are recreating the same behavior with Javascript/CSS/HTML5. Soon it will be only Javascript and you literally won't write not a single line HTML. (Well React already does that to be honest.) So yeah, interesting times. And it's hard to jump on this train whilst it's moving so fast.