I don’t recognise a lot of what you’re saying here.
Yeah, there is churn in JavaScript frameworks but to me that’s all they are: frameworks that sit on top of the DOM, and the nature of the DOM (for better or worse!) hasn’t changed all that much in a long time. When I think about what those frameworks are actually doing there’s a lot of consistency (this thinking also helps you avoid the stupid turf wars)
I personally like that’s there’s no “up” in web development. I’ve gone from perfecting REST APIs to understanding video encoding and streaming, to sending data via WebSocket or WebRTC… the list goes on. I hope someday soon I’ll have an excuse to dive into WebGL and WebAssembly.
And the development environment (i.e. the browser) is actually pretty wonderful compared to XCode, Android Studio and the like. There’s a reason native developers have pushed and strained to get things like hot reloading that browsers can do very easily!
Yeah, there is churn in JavaScript frameworks but to me that’s all they are: frameworks that sit on top of the DOM, and the nature of the DOM (for better or worse!) hasn’t changed all that much in a long time. When I think about what those frameworks are actually doing there’s a lot of consistency (this thinking also helps you avoid the stupid turf wars)
I personally like that’s there’s no “up” in web development. I’ve gone from perfecting REST APIs to understanding video encoding and streaming, to sending data via WebSocket or WebRTC… the list goes on. I hope someday soon I’ll have an excuse to dive into WebGL and WebAssembly.
And the development environment (i.e. the browser) is actually pretty wonderful compared to XCode, Android Studio and the like. There’s a reason native developers have pushed and strained to get things like hot reloading that browsers can do very easily!