For a decade, "what's your frontend stack?" was a loaded question. jQuery vs. Backbone. Angular vs. React. Webpack vs. everything. The churn was exhausting, and a non-trivial chunk of our job was just keeping up.
That era is quietly ending — not because we won the framework wars, but because the questions moved up a layer. The interesting problems in frontend today aren't about which library renders a list. They're about how rendering, data, and increasingly generation fit together. And AI is sitting right in the middle of that shift.
The stack consolidated more than we admit
Look at what most new production apps actually reach for in 2026:
React or Svelte/Vue for the component model, with the framework wars settling into "pick one, they're all fine."
