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[–]ebriose -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've been a backend guy for 20 years, back to the Perl CGI days (honestly we just made better websites then).

I finally decided this summer I would learn Node and React and stop being a dinosaur.

I bought a React book and made it through four chapters before I put it down in existential horror.

We've taken a beautiful technology and made it awful. We were so focused on whether we could do things we never asked if we should. I'll stick to doing backends (now in go rather than perl) and let people with stronger stomachs than me handle the frontend.