alert(“nyyeehh”);

Never heard of marquee or blink, eh?

Wrong, annoying animations was Flash's thing. Javascript was made for annoying popups and alert boxes

"Sometimes there is a better choice than JavaScript"

We call it TypeScript

I was there for the first wave of SPAs, I even learned angularJs and Knockout. It did feel like a major atep forward, being able to make highly interactive applications. However, things quickly went off the rails when the tools stopped being about managing heavy client state, and became the default for everything, even when it ment using JavaScript to build extremely basic functionally browsers did natively with html, but extremely worse(e.g. navigation). The modern Web really is a victim of hype and trends.

Unless your app needs to work offline, or you have to manage dozens of constantly changing client side data points concurrently, your site doesn't need to be a big heavy js framework. My rule is if it looks like Google Maps, you need a SPA. if it looks like Gmail you need REST/HATEOS. and if it looks like google's mainpage, you need a server side rendering.

At some point you might see the light, and go back to making your websites simpler, but Im not hopeful. Until then I'm building the majority of things with HTMX and alpineJs.

Like typescript?

Say that to the madlad who wrote a virtual machine in js that can boot Linux and Windows: https://bellard.org/jslinux/

I thought that's what GIF was created for... Even if the original introduction of it is saying something completely different.

Doing Odin Project now and the constant shiting on JS online is sort of crushing my motivation. 😫

Sometimes?

There is a better choice.

Like, not creating annoying animations.

css can do animations, and it's much more performant then js. I hate how over-used JavaScript is on "modern" websites.
some websites are even straight up unusable or don't display anything with js disabled....