Why All Web Frameworks Suck (Especially JavaScript Ones)

The Endless Framework Wars: Why Is There a New One Everyday?

Remember when jQuery was the king of the web? Simpler times. Now, every week, some developer in a basement reinvents the wheel, slaps a fancy name on it, and posts a Medium article titled "Why I Built Yet Another JS Framework". Next thing you know, your team is debating whether to rewrite everything in TurboHyperReactVite.js because it’s 10% faster than what you just spent two years mastering.

New frameworks pop up faster than you can say "dependency hell." Everyone wants to be the new React, but in reality, they just add more confusion. And if you refuse to switch? Well, good luck finding Stack Overflow answers for your "outdated" framework.

The JavaScript Curse: Why Everything Is Just a Little Bit Broken

Ah, JavaScript. The language that lets you console.log(typeof NaN) and get "number" as the answer. The language where 0.1 + 0.2 is not 0.3. The language that powers 90% of the web and yet still feels like it was cobbled together in a weekend.

JS is the foundation for all these bloated frameworks, and it shows. Whether it’s callbacks from hell, async nightmares, or undefined** errors ruining your day**, JavaScript ensures that pain is never too far away. And don't even get me started on TypeScript fanatics—congratulations, you turned JavaScript into Java, but somehow made it worse.

Frontend Hell: React, Vue, Angular, Svelte—Pick Your Poison

Frontend development used to be simple: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. But noooo, that wasn’t enough. Now we have to deal with virtual DOMs, component lifecycle hooks, hydration, reactivity, state management, and 500MB node_modules folders just to make a freaking TODO app.

• React: The granddaddy of frontend frameworks. Has more boilerplate than an actual boiler room. Every time you think you understand it, a new hook appears to make your life miserable.
• Vue: "React but easier." Until you need Vuex. Then it’s "React but with slightly different pain."
• Angular: Google’s way of telling developers "We hate you."
• Svelte: "We don’t need a virtual DOM!" Cool. Enjoy being the indie framework everyone ignores in five years.

And let’s not forget CSS-in-JS, because styling things normally was too easy.

Backend? More Like Backstab: Express, Next.js, NestJS, and Other Lies

Backend JavaScript frameworks are just as painful. Sure, Express.js is lightweight and unopinionated. But you know what else it is? A trap. Because now you have to build everything from scratch, and before you know it, you’re drowning in middleware and spaghetti code.

Meanwhile, Next.js pretends to be "full-stack," but deep down, it's just a frontend framework in disguise. Then there’s NestJS, which basically slaps Angular’s nonsense onto the backend because we clearly needed more decorators in our lives.

The Build Tools Circus: Webpack, Vite, Rollup, Babel… Just Stop

Want to bundle your app? Great! Just spend two weeks figuring out which combination of Webpack, Vite, Rollup, Babel, ESLint, and Prettier won’t break everything. Hope you enjoy debugging random import errors and version mismatches because some plugin decided to update overnight.

And let’s be real: You don’t actually know what Webpack does. No one does. It’s just there, waiting to break things at the worst possible moment.

Performance? What’s That? Let’s Just Ship a 5MB Website

Have you ever checked how big a modern web app is? Just opening a simple website loads megabytes of JavaScript. Meanwhile, back in 1999, we had entire websites under 100KB that worked flawlessly.

But hey, thanks to lazy loading, tree shaking, and code splitting, you might get your app under 3MB. Progress!

Developer Experience? LOL, Good Luck With That

Every framework claims to improve DX (developer experience). In reality, they all bring breaking changes every six months, require 20 npm packages to do basic tasks, and have documentation that either:

1. Tells you nothing useful.
2. Is outdated because the API changed last week.
3. Redirects you to GitHub issues where people are also confused.

Bonus points if there’s an opinionated maintainer who refuses to fix obvious issues because "it’s not a bug, it’s a feature."

The "Full-Stack" Scam: Why You Get to Suffer from Both Ends

Full-stack development sounds great in theory: "One language for both frontend and backend!" In practice? It means you get to deal with both frontend and backend disasters at the same time. Oh, and don’t forget database ORM weirdness—because why should SQL be easy?

The result? You’re constantly switching contexts, fixing 100 different issues, and slowly losing the will to live.

What’s the Alternative? Do We Embrace the Chaos or Abandon Ship?

So, if all web frameworks suck, what do we do? Here are your choices:

1. Go Full Vanilla JS – Good luck maintaining that in 2025.
2. Use a "Stable" Framework – Joke’s on you, nothing stays stable.
3. Quit Web Dev – Tempting, but where else will you get paid to suffer?
4. Accept the Suck and Move On – Probably the best option.

At the end of the day, web development is pain, and frameworks just decide which flavor of pain you get. So pick one, embrace the chaos, and remember: No matter what framework you choose, a new one will replace it in a year anyway.