The framework isn’t for you. You’re just along for the voyage.

I was trying to build a survey form. Just a text box or two, a dropdown maybe, and a button. Nothing crazy – no fancy gradients, no animations that make buttons behave like they are auditioning for a Pixar film. Just a boring, run-of-the-mill form with a button that says “Submit”. Five minutes of work, I thought. Maybe ten if I forgot how HTML works again. Many hours later I had installed a CLI, a…