No worries buddy, and I think that it's important that you enjoy using something that works for you. I just thought it prudent to point out the limited scope of certain approaches as there's a lot of people trying to push this kind of simplicty into situations where it is less appropriate (in my opinion).
Indeed. If 40-something me could go back in time and tell 20-something me what I’d learned in my career so far, one of the first lessons would be that simplicity scales and endures like almost nothing else and is probably the most underrated virtue in software development. (Composability would be #2.)
That is not to say that complexity is never necessary. Sometimes we are trying to solve inherently complex problems. But there is a disturbing amount of accidental complexity in modern web development. To make things worse, because web development is such a huge part of the software industry now and how so many people have come into that industry, a whole generation of developers is growing up believing that the accidental complexity is necessary or even desirable.
I've been trying to move away from things like create-react-app and towards things like Parcel, but pretty most statically typed stack has some sort "compile time" typechecking that would be needless to have in the browser. Ergo, expecting the browser to do everything we want to provide a development environment is going to be a tough call. It would be lush if Firefox and Chrome supported TypeScript natively, but it would always lag behind I think.
I currently am working on a typescript + react + redux application. The number of times I have had a developer on my team tell me that a change will be hard is disturbingly high. In vanilla javascript it would be a simple sixty minute change.
I actually really like typescript but I am unaware of being able to use it without very obnoxious things like webpack being involved.
It really isn't, though? I think redux introduces a LOT of complexity and much prefer something like Mobx-State-Tree, but React has been a total breeze.
For me it is still surprising how much time and effort you have to take to solve problems that was actually solved years ago. But I can understand that for beginners, or people that used vanilla JS or jQuery React is a step forward. For me, it is a big step backwards.
