This one in particular always seems to be pulled out by people advocating for yet another new framework. I don't do much frontend these days...for like a decade now, but as a mostly outsider who occasionally dabbles, React has been a constant for a long time now. The latest stuff in Next looks fantastic, in the real world we were never able to build anything nearly as nice as what is possible these days. There's a lot of historical revisionism and rose-colored glasses being worn these days, but the truth is that most web apps have always been garbage, and that will probably never change either.
The library API itself might be stable, but the ecosystem is not. And that ecosystem has vulnerable libraries that should be updated.
And that's not even going into using a big component library, like Material UI, which might be its own nightmare.
This is something I've dealt with a lot personally, and I've made a good attempt to avoid unnecessary 3rd-party dependencies. But the huge churn continues in the build tooling, testing, linting, etc.
This one in particular always seems to be pulled out by people advocating for yet another new framework. I don't do much frontend these days...for like a decade now, but as a mostly outsider who occasionally dabbles, React has been a constant for a long time now. The latest stuff in Next looks fantastic, in the real world we were never able to build anything nearly as nice as what is possible these days. There's a lot of historical revisionism and rose-colored glasses being worn these days, but the truth is that most web apps have always been garbage, and that will probably never change either.