I’m a full-stack developer, looking for an internship at the moment. I feel like I’m really tired of React and Svelte. I am so done with how there’s a lot of moving parts and complexity introduced by various tools, like ESLint, Prettier, TypeScript, and Tailwind. Can I work on a back-end application of my choice, while also having the freedom to not use a JavaScript runtime, in a professional environment? Can I also do modern JS stuff like tree-shaking, minification and code-splitting? How viable would be it to do so? And would it be easier to maintain?
I hardly ever use JS, even though I’ve written several websites. The fact that people default to JS when most websites can be simple static html/css sites is one of the big problems with today’s internet in my opinion. You don’t need to do tree shaking, minification, etc when you only have 5 lines of JS in order to make a button send a form or whatever. CSS can also do insane amounts of things that you needed JS to do in the past. Even pop up menus and stuff is now built in.