I don't know whether the path is the problem that makes modern web dev so hard to learn.

I'm currently trying to setup the js testing library "jest" to use babel to transpile typescript and I get the most obscure error messages. This is painfully hard and I have years of experience with javascript/typescript [1].

I doubt there ever has been a more complex programming ecosystem than JavaScript's. No other system has more bundlers (webpack, rollup, metro, ..), transpilers (babel, typescript, flow, ...), testing libraries (jest, mocha, jasmine, ...), package managers (yarn, npm, pnpm, ...). It is just insane what we created.

[1] if you are curious, that is the error message. Good luck making sense of it. It probably is caused by non-compatible dependencies but yarn does not tell me.

Validation Error:

  Preset @babel/preset-typescript is invalid:

  The "id" argument must be of type string. Received type object
  TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "id" argument must be of type string. Received type object