as a frontend dev, Do you prefer code in JS or an all day long headache?

Yesn't

JS is easily one of my favourite languages. It's stressful at times, but I do love working with it

For me it's related to what i plan on doing and the application context, i tend to go for some cafeinated angular development for small and isolated stuff, but when it gets rough i go full angular latest in typescript and just setup angular material and that's that, frontend for me is just generating a structured interface that has as few as possible unique items in it so i can build a frontend builder that i can call and tell it to construct the ui for me.

It's js the head cache is unavoidable.

@crafter well although that is true at least you can remove the inconvenient environment for development, i mean you can get yourself a webstorm setup that works well.

It gets easier overtime, and yes the magic made by js worth it

Javascript is fine. Stricter variants of it preferably.

What is not great are these dangerous remote code execution frameworks people use to run their scripts on — I think the kids call them "browsers".