This rant is missing the WHY in every section. While it has some valid points, it will unfortunately only satisfy those who are already in the same boat. The r

This rant is missing the WHY in every section. While it has some valid points, it will unfortunately only satisfy those who are already in the same boat. The rest of us will keep wondering why he implicitly assumes that backend generated with js is sooo much worse than if was generated with anything else. I've also written my fair share of PHP before AJAX was even a word, plus lots of ASP.NET, Java and Python backends. Honestly, their templating languages all suck, compared to React components that are type safe and infinitely easier to compose and refactor (jinja anyone?). While their languages and ecosystems are a lot more powerful, JS these days isn't that terrible as a language, just keep a tight grip on your package.json. It is correct that there is something wrong with the culture of the front-end development, in that there seem to be no brakes on just piling crap on the next shiny thing and then building even more packages and abstractions around it, instead of fixing the underlying crap in the first place.