Whenever I have a great deal of discretion over how a web app is made these days, I like to push to see how simple I can make the front end portion. I spend some of my client time writing heavy client-JS front ends in React and Angular and what-have-you, and, though I get why they are good, I kind of hate them all.

This post is a drum I've been banging for a long time, from nagging the dev team in the IBM days through to formally requesting it in HCL's Ideas Portal. That idea there has been "Likely to implement" for a little while now, which is heartening, and either way I figured it'd be useful to have a proper blog post explaining the trouble and what a useful better version would be.