The state of web application development has changed drastically in the past ten years. These changes have been spurred on by greater bandwidth for many, more powerful and feature-rich browsers. The result is a thriving web ecosystem with sites, apps, and experiences that would have been hard to imagine a decade ago.
And yet, for many developers, this ecosystem often feels like a bazaar, stuffed with libraries and frameworks that do anything and everything one could imagine. For every need, there are a dozen options to choose from, and with new stalls (libraries) opening every day, it’s no wonder many of us pine for the days when starting a new project was as simple as dropping jQuery in a script tag.
