MODERN FRONTEND COMPLEXITY: ESSENTIAL OR ACCIDENTAL?

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Modern frontend development has become excessively complex due to the growing divergence between modern framework-based source code and the native browser runtime. This complexity evolved from simple static pages, through added interactivity with JavaScript and AJAX, leading to today's heavy Single Page Application (SPA) architectures. A simpler alternative is just using server-side rendering with HTMX for interactivity, HTML Web Components for reusable behavior, and server-side templating.