The Modern Web Dev Blues 🎵: CSS Grids, APIs, and Tears

some lyrics are a bit hard to decipher so i pasted them below:

I remember the days of HTML,
Static pages, it was simple as hell.
Just some tables, tags, and a little inline,
Now it's frameworks, man, I’m losing my mind.

Oh, we’ve got npm and 12 dependencies,
Webpack's grindin’ just to render with ease.
What happened to the days of “just hit refresh”?
Modern web dev’s got me feelin’ repressed.

CSS was simple, just float and align,
Now there’s Flexbox and Grid blowin’ my mind.
SCSS and Tailwind, preprocessors galore,
Why’s my stylesheet need a manual to explore?

Oh, we’ve got npm and 12 dependencies,
Webpack's grindin’ just to render with ease.
What happened to the days of “just hit refresh”?
Modern web dev’s got me feelin’ repressed.

React or Vue, or maybe Svelte tonight,
Pick the wrong stack, it’ll haunt you for life.
Don’t forget your linter, your TypeScript's in tow,
GitHub Actions failed—oh, there goes the show.

Now it’s APIs, microservices to boot,
Serverless functions, man, where’s the root?
A thousand lines of code for a button to click,
Just take me back, man, I’m feeling so sick.

Oh, we’ve got npm and 12 dependencies,
Webpack's grindin’ just to render with ease.
What happened to the days of “just hit refresh”?
Modern web dev’s got me feelin’ repressed.

So here’s to the devs who brave this storm,
Wrangling frameworks is now the norm.
But deep in my heart, I long for the past,
When building the web was simple and fast.

thanks for watching ;)