The front end side of web development has been rapidly changing for years now with tons of frameworks, tools, and tiny npm libraries. A lot of this has been due to limitations in the JavaScript programming language and its standard API present in web browsers, but plenty of frameworks exist now for implementing a rich web application using an MVC or MVC-like architecture. The rise of single page applications where the entire site is dynamically loaded and modified through JavaScript has made the need for stricter architectural patterns a modern requirement of web development.