I did frontend for around 5 years. Started with Angular before it was cool and went through all the node/npm hype. I'm getting out of frontend now because of the ridiculous state of frameworks and libraries. In the mean time for my side projects I now do almost everything in pure JS and use only specific functions from libraries if there is no way around.

The irony with all these frameworks, in many cases especially for small projetcs, it will be more efficient to code it from scratch than dealing with the whole stack thing. So much for not reinventing the wheel ...