I started in web dev 17 years ago, but didn’t get my first professional dev job until 3 years ago. I had never had to learn angular, react, separated backend a

I started in web dev 17 years ago, but didn’t get my first professional dev job until 3 years ago. I had never had to learn angular, react, separated backend and frontend when writing code for my own stuff and my own company. I would regularly process as much as I could on the server and ship the HTML and a JSON object to the browser and then just use native JS or more SSR from there. My sites and apps were complex, just as complex as the stuff we were making in my first two dev jobs but the dev ex was so much nicer. Shipping a heap of JS to the browser and getting that to do the heavy lifting of making the HTML etc just felt like an anti pattern but I went with it because “that’s the way we do it now” Seeing Remix, Laravel, RoR still going, Astro etc is starting to convince me that perhaps separated FE and API isn’t the one true way and the old way might have been better.