Is it? I used to happily make very complex sites using Apache Wicket on top of Java. It lets you make composable, extensible components (including inherited mar

Is it? I used to happily make very complex sites using Apache Wicket on top of Java. It lets you make composable, extensible components (including inherited markup). It is type safe (the cools kids are finally rediscovering how important this is for maintainability with Flow & TypeScript). It supports replacing components using AJAX. Sure, it's not great for client-side SVG rendering or the various other cool things you can do with React and co, but hand on heart, I can't honestly say I find doing all this stuff in JavaScript to be "so much better". Quite the opposite for the majority of intranet-type sites, in fact.