> I have never really understood what 'modern' means whenever someone shows their new library / framework / tool. It means they think it can do modern web api

> I have never really understood what 'modern' means whenever someone shows their new library / framework / tool. It means they think it can do modern web api stuff without having huge issues. It also signals that the speaker thinks others would make a similar choice in the future, for a dev tool etc., hoping for network effect . community familiarity and support.