A brief history of web frameworks

Is it important to consider why we use frameworks such as Angular or React in the first place? Before Angular, there was AngularJS and Backbone, both of which heavily relied on the framework that came before the ubiquitous jQuery. In the early days of the existence of jQuery, back in 2006, its purpose was quite obvious for web developers—to create a consistent API surface to enable DOM manipulation. Browser vendors are supposed to implement various web technologies like HTML, JavaScript/EcmaScript and CSS, as standardized by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Internet Explorer, the only browser vast majority of internet users relied on at the time, acted as a vehicle to push proprietary technologies and APIs to retain its edge as the go-to browser. First, Mozilla's Firefox and then Google's Chrome browsers successfully gained...