Stop Ignoring the Browser: The Biggest Frontend Shift in a Decade

The web used to feel like a messy bazaar of competing ideas, half-broken libraries, and duct-taped solutions pretending to be standards. Then came frameworks, strutting in like saviors, promising order.

But something curious is happening now: the browsers themselves are absorbing many of those framework superpowers directly into the platform.

Frameworks aren’t dead, but their monopoly over developer experience is cracking, and the standards movement is sharper than it has been in a decade. The fight isn’t between React and Angular…