It is interesting that you automatically assume that I didn't have many touchpoints with JS just because I don't get the hype. Actually quite the opposite is t

It is interesting that you automatically assume that I didn't have many touchpoints with JS just because I don't get the hype. Actually quite the opposite is the case. I was happily writing loads of vanillajs, tons of Angular(1) and wrote several years codebases in emberjs. Besides that I worked with Vue and yes also React once. React brought nothing to the table that was helping me ship faster and make less unimportant decisions. Back when I had to touch react every week there was a new flavour how to handle routing, state, validate forms and sync to the backend. Ember and Angular had a good default there and were not harder to use. (Nowadays I tend to stay away from fat js frameworks but mainly because I went indie dev and need to be resource efficient building full stack apps with Rails. But that is a different story. And yes I worked with Go, Python, Java and C# in the backend too.)