I liked the overview i remember myself having 15 years ago, today there's a new library/API/service to learn everyday to keep even the simplest things working.

I liked the overview i remember myself having 15 years ago, today there's a new library/API/service to learn everyday to keep even the simplest things working. Everything is sluggish, everything takes ages to load, to compile, to understand. Also simple web apps i try to prototype takes ages to make and debug. Anyone else feel this? It's like something always goes wrong with some dependency, some build process, some versioning error, some service, so you end up using 95% of your time setting up services, reading manuals, and debugging instead of coding which was simpler in the just-post-spaghetti days of web-dev. I don't know if it's feasible yet but i hope switching to less technologies with more mature JS/CSS and a few minified libraries run locally will work out for me - harder with teams of course. I don't know what's a good simple backend with the same philosophy, Laravel Lumen maybe? I feel like you need some layer above sql unless you wan't crazy complexity - or maybe a simpler database / api system. I want the simplest system possible! (who doesn't)