My dislike of frontend work mostly stems from the fact that, at least when I started, there were no generally accepted best practices. I started out with Backbo

My dislike of frontend work mostly stems from the fact that, at least when I started, there were no generally accepted best practices. I started out with Backbone.js, and it wanted to be “unopinionated” in things like directory layout and the best methods refreshing data. Every tutorial I read did something different. Compare this to a more mature framework like Rails or Django, and you can see how one might easily waste time on some of the basics. A few years ago, I built a small project using Nunjucks templates that needed translations. There were a half-dozen different ways of extracting translations, and most of them required some form of manual work. Coming from Django, with a single best way of handling translations, this was annoying. I prefer “batteries-included” frameworks that let me focus less on foundations and more on the actual business. Angular was the only framework I used that resonated with me in this fashion. Now I use React, and spend most of my time debugging tests.