What’s genuinely shocking about #javascript isn't the complexity of the ecosystem but the fact that it's flooded by services that tie building apps to subscription services.
It's hard to find a tutorial that doesn't immediately tell you to sign up for Service X to make things work.
@khalidabuhakmeh isn’t that just web development these days? I mean your .NET app is going to need a backend somewhere.
You can quite comfortably use React with any old backend. Last one I did used Remix for front and back end running in a plain old container talking to Postgres. Auth I used AWS Cognito because I didn’t want to run something myself (would probably have used Keycloak).
@khalidabuhakmeh what I did encounter was that the folk who had created a lot of popular packages were also running various backend services and using the packages as a draw to them. But people outside of big tech need to get paid for their work somehow.
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