Web-Development is running into the wrong direction
As a Backend- and native-app-developer I spent 10 days recently with “modern” Web-Application development (JavaScript, VueJS, Babel, WebPack… you name it). This is what I have learned so far:
1. everything is deprecated. Not a single “npm install” works without flooding your screen with deprecated / outdated / “this library is not longer supported”-messages
2. everything is magic. Logic gets injected by somehow hidden stuff and you never now what is going on under the hood. Magic things can also break very quickly.
3. anyone may and can create their own javascript dialect using the “transpilation” brought by Babel, and people even do that, but apparently without consulting each other about it beforehand occasionally
4. your bugs and questions show up multiple times on GitHub and StackOverflow with very long threads showing different solutions, not one of which works for your specific problem
5. overtaking an existing NodeJS and/or Web-project might fail at “npm install” due to incompatibilities, outdated libraries, missing babel-settings or webpack-config or even because you have the wrong version of Node installed
