What is the best?

Why do we keep asking that?

We web developers tend to ask the same questions year after year: What’s the best framework? What’s the best bundler? What’s the best editor?

What does the best even mean without any context? We should first stop and think about the project we’re doing. After that we can start to wonder which tools are best suited for the task at hand. Sometimes the answer is that we don’t even need a framework. Or a bundler. Even JavaScript isn’t always needed. Remember: less is more.

Mattias Petter Johansson said it best in his latest YouTube-video: Throw out your tools. I totally agree with that. You should try to learn to focus on the task and language itself, not the tools and abstractions. Investing time learning new web standards is also a good bet, instead of frameworks which come and go. By doing that, you’ll also become a better developer and less dependent from third party:

You are the best.