> Like most, I started with React/Vue etc and realized that I was trying to learn a whole language and ecosystem on top of JS and that was why i always found fr

> Like most, I started with React/Vue etc and realized that I was trying to learn a whole language and ecosystem on top of JS and that was why i always found frontends to be so complex. This is intriguing because as someone who started with vanilla JS long time ago I lived through the period when jQuery was seen as the breath of fresh air and React was welcomed as a great alternative to the tangled mess of bespoke code with callbacks all around. One problem that makes deciding what to use is evaluating the size to which a project will grow. For a one pager or a very simple web app a framework (be it front or backend) is often an overkill. But maintaining a large app that does not use one is quite hellish.