react Memes

Just spent six months becoming a React guru, and now everyone's talking about some framework with a fruit name that's "10x faster" and "the future of web development." The frontend ecosystem is basically a treadmill designed by sadists. You're never done learning—you're just temporarily less obsolete than yesterday. The worst part? You'll still rewrite everything in vanilla JS five years from now when the cycle repeats itself.

Look at this poor dev crawling desperately toward their framework lifelines. The modern web developer's equivalent of withdrawal symptoms. "Just one more component library, I swear I can quit Angular anytime!" Remember when we built websites with just HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS? No dependency hell, no 500MB node_modules folder, no "npm audit fix" nightmares. Those were simpler times. Now we've created generations of devs who break into cold sweats at the thought of writing a querySelector instead of using their precious framework's state management. The irony is we've come full circle - the "revolutionary" solutions all eventually try to mimic the simplicity we abandoned in the first place. Yet here we are, crawling back to our framework overlords because god forbid we handle DOM updates manually.

The eternal battle between junior devs who've just discovered the latest shiny framework and senior devs who've migrated codebases 17 times in their career. That clenched fist contains the restraint of someone who's spent countless weekends converting perfectly functional apps to whatever Google/Meta abandoned six months later. The SrDev isn't angry, just... tired. They're mentally calculating how many sprints will be wasted rewriting what already works while product features get pushed to "next quarter." That face says "I still have PTSD from our Angular 1 to 2 migration."