I began programming in 2015, now that’s not that long of a time, but coming on my 10 year anniversary I feel that it’s long enough that I can sit on my high pony and talk about the what the “good old days” where like. Really, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of PHP, it was the age of AngularJS. Considering that the best option for writing a SPA was AngularJS, and that no mere mortal would dare to recommend that a beginner learn that ghastly web framework, I existed in a programmer’s natural habitat: writing PHP in Notepad++ “hosting” L/WAMP on the LAN.
Soon, in a year or two, React would “get good” and then came the dark ages. I learned React late, it became appealing to the young and stary-eyed me who found out about GitHub Pages, free hosting (yay), and got tired of jQuery, .NET, and PHP in 2020. See when Elvis Presley sang “(You’re) The Devil in Disguise” he sang it about React, which (in my humble opinion) is the sole creator of the nine circles of Hell.