Having developed with nodejs since v0.4, went through jquery => backbone => angular (1) => ember => vue => react, written stuff in several incarnations of javas

Having developed with nodejs since v0.4, went through jquery => backbone => angular (1) => ember => vue => react, written stuff in several incarnations of javascript (including coffee and typescript), used build tooling from grunt to webpack and customized browserify, even built stuff with meteor... i can‘t bear it any longer. Actually now we are full circle again. Files that mix css/template/logic with FOTM syntax, add some database calls during SSR and you have basically PHP. Just more complicated tooling. Deploy your frontend on S3 and its similar to FTP to Apache Servers, except you can‘t update just individual files. Run your backend on AWS lambda and you have stateless backends like ... PHP, but with cloud vendor lock-in. State Management like „Flux“ that poorly resembles state machines on top of JS shortcomings. I am personally switching completely to elixir/phoenix to do anything web-related and can solve things cleanly within minutes. Also when Phoenix LiveView finally arrives, it could be groundbreaking and replace many usecases of modern SPAs.