I'm a young engineer, fortunate to have been born into the era of modern web development frameworks. So much so that the very first web page I built was in React. It's hard for me to imagine how the internet functioned before these frameworks existed. But as I always say, you can't truly appreciate the present without understanding the past. So, I set out on a journey to explore the evolution of web development — why frameworks were created and how things worked before their time. P.S: This blog will be mostly about frontend frameworks.

Written by Aswin Unnikrishnan. 10/02/2025