As a backend person that used to be a front end person, there has never been a better time for using VanillaJS (or TypeScript), HTML, and CSS?

> someday pick one to learn in depth without worrying about it being replaced by the next hotness

So maybe the trick is to not use a framework. Like, I don't need a "framework" for backend dev, just a toolbox of good libraries.

The tooling around TypeScript is similar to a backend language like Go, a very different experience from writing JavaScript a decade ago