I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore.
I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about XMLHttpRequest and before any serious frameworks existed. I left professional web development behind around 2009 (I started in 1997 with WebObjects) and spent the final decade of my career doing mobile.
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For me, I didn’t really learn much React or use it in an actual project. I opted for Vue, but now I am starting to look into HTMX.
A colleague also suggested that we try HTMX in future small projects rather than frameworks like React.
I left professional web development behind around 2009 (…) Maybe AI will eventually take this burden away and allow programmers an easier time to focus only on essential tasks.
Meanwhile first Elixir’s GitHub commit has been pushed on January 09, 2011 Github 
Of course half funny, but Elixir and it’s ecosystem are doing their job really well. The language itself allows to write 10x less lines of code while ecto for example prevents SQL injection attacks giving also an API which is really close to SQL.
Do I like web development? Having in mind how web standards are implemented - not really. However I love Elixir so much that I don’t see myself working mainly in any other language. Hope it would survive next 30 or even better 3000 years. 
Yup, Elixir and Phoenix/LiveView seems to be a very good option for web development now 
agree…
I kinda understand the sentiment, having to deal with “legacy” SPAs is a pain.
But, if you are writing a greenfield solo project and want to do it like you did in 2009, vanilla html + js, I’m confident saying that thing will be much better than in 2009.
Hypermedia is the answer to the complexity inherent in web development:
