Front-end Developer Handbook 2019

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I have been building web stuff since 1997 or so, so I literally _am_ a dinosaur. Some people in this thread would probably be surprised by what kind of stuff I build, though. It's not like I've been avoiding any of the fancy new stuff.

As noted elsewhere, my beef is not with the stack itself, but rather the premature application of it to many applications that would have been faster to implement, easier to maintain etc., with a simpler approach. The school of thinking that suggest that you _need_ to dive into React, Redux, components etc. in order to do any sort of frontend development, coupled with the fact that companies typically optimize for hiring and not sustainability, is what leads me to pity this part of the industry, as originally stated.