TOO MANY TOOLS: HOW TO MANAGE FRONTEND TOOL OVERLOAD

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Modern frontend development has become overwhelmed with too many tool choices. The early period back in the early 2010s felt simpler due to constrained tool defaults, modest developer expectations, and stable web standards, whereas post-2015 saw an explosion of tools driven by rapid ECMAScript releases, evolving web standards, and the rise of single-page applications (SPAs) and TypeScript.