> Well, yea, but that's the point of my whole comment - Node could have a Django or Rails equivalent after ten years, don't you think?
It's not that such a thing hasn't been developed, but that by the time such a thing gets developed (for example: [0]), NodeJS devs have already decided they don't like gulp (even though just last week gulp was the new thing vs. grunt), they like webpack; they don't like AngularJS, they like React (or VueJS now); etc.
Almost feels like the JS ecosystem is plagued by people who want to rise to dev stardom by making the next big framework, and they spend a LOT of time trying to convince people their thing is the next best thing since sliced bread. I've seen grown up devs abandon stacks that were perfectly fine to spend years migrating to the new thing — granted this happens more at larger companies where resume building sometimes overtakes business needs.
Five years ago I might have agreed with you. I think it's pretty telling though that the techs you just listed have now been around for longer than Angular or Gulp were ever popular (at least according to my recollection). Seems to me that the churn has slowed significantly; people are generally happier with React and Webpack than their predecessors.
It's not that such a thing hasn't been developed, but that by the time such a thing gets developed (for example: [0]), NodeJS devs have already decided they don't like gulp (even though just last week gulp was the new thing vs. grunt), they like webpack; they don't like AngularJS, they like React (or VueJS now); etc.
Almost feels like the JS ecosystem is plagued by people who want to rise to dev stardom by making the next big framework, and they spend a LOT of time trying to convince people their thing is the next best thing since sliced bread. I've seen grown up devs abandon stacks that were perfectly fine to spend years migrating to the new thing — granted this happens more at larger companies where resume building sometimes overtakes business needs.
[0]: https://github.com/angular-fullstack/generator-angular-fulls...