> Yep. Frontend frameworks get you a slick looking responsive GUI with not much effort (you are outsourcing most of the design work). This wows the average VC. The VC funds you rather than the team with an architecturally simple frontend, and the framework flywheel gains momentum.
And it will stay working as long as you never need to update any of the packages. And then the rapidly changing, highly co-dependent nature of the FE npm ecosystem will bite you in the ass unless you were really careful with your choices - which you weren't because giant megacorps said it was 'best practice'.
In less than 10 years, being able to recompile a modern projects will be a new kind of jobs, going around legacy version of webpack with legacy version of babel that support some syntax that would have never been made a standard with a spaghetti of deprecated library like axios who only became popular because their users was too lazy to look at the standard.
That will all become very interesting if we start to find some XSS issues in today's major frontend framework
And it will stay working as long as you never need to update any of the packages. And then the rapidly changing, highly co-dependent nature of the FE npm ecosystem will bite you in the ass unless you were really careful with your choices - which you weren't because giant megacorps said it was 'best practice'.