I'm working on a dashboard for a personal project. It involves a few dynamically populated dropdowns and a map with custom markers. In the past I might've used jQuery and maybe Backbone in more extreme cases. After looking into the "modern" options available I ended up writing the damn thing in jQuery. I did it in a few hours without having to involve Node, npm (or yarn), hundreds of dependencies (and associated security concerns) or "(com|trans)pilation)" of anything. The whole process reminded me again of why I went from fullstack to working exclusively on backends years ago.