Comment by esskay

I'd never heard of basecoat but it looks great. IMO this is what Tailwind UI should have been. It was utter stupidity that they forced you to use their preferred shiny new JS framework of the week for UI components.

> I genuinely don’t understand how front-end developers accept this level of needless complexity.

I call it 'Shiny Object Syndrome' - Frontend devs tend to love the latest new JS frameworks for some reason. The idea of something being long running, tried and tested and stable for 5-10 years is totally foreign to many FE devs.

Despite its age JS and its ecosystem have just never matured into a stable set of reliable, repeatable frameworks and libraries.