I agree to some extent that some things about the JS ecosystem are a mess, but not these examples.
ES6 is now widely supported in every browser with Internet Explorer being the only exception; just take a look at caniuse.com/#search=es6, where's that "used by nobody but Node"?
Secondly: TypeScript is a complete optional language for those who want types in their JS experience and it's definitely not suitable for someone who's a complete JS beginner. And Babel, as you said, is a transpiler but it's just that, if anyone mistakes Babel as a language they need to check what Babel does. So we just have one language, JavaScript, and two versions. Any confusion with this is the same as saying: "Oh, well, I get confused with C# not having support for Generics in C# 1.0 but having them in C# 2.0!"
I don't understand why you consider that React, Vue or Angular are not optional. You can just make any kind of development with pure JS the same way you can do it with PHP. React, Vue or Angular are the same as Laravel, .NET MVC, Flask or Spring: libraries to make your life easier, but if you want you can go ahead and do it without them.
Maybe in React it's hard to start a project (though given that it's the most famous view framework right now I highly doubt that there's no project like Spring Initilizr for it), I don't have experience with it, but in Angular or Vue here's how hard it is to start a new project.
Angular:
ng new name-of-the-project
Vue:
vue create name-of-the-project
And voilà, you just got yourself everything you need to start developing with a nice architecture and some example files. You DON'T need to learn Node if you're developing a front-end app, you DON'T need to use Yarn (it's the same as NPM, so what's the point if you don't want?), so what's your complaint here? That you need to learn some library to use that library?
Again, I agree that some parts of the JS ecosystem are a mess, the amount of libraries that are published in NPM for such trivial things like padding a string just because the developers are lazy enough to write a few couple of lines is awful, but your complaints here seem more like a problem with not knowing the ecosystem enough rather than a problem with the ecosystem itself.
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I agree to some extent that some things about the JS ecosystem are a mess, but not these examples.
ES6 is now widely supported in every browser with Internet Explorer being the only exception; just take a look at caniuse.com/#search=es6, where's that "used by nobody but Node"?
Secondly: TypeScript is a complete optional language for those who want types in their JS experience and it's definitely not suitable for someone who's a complete JS beginner. And Babel, as you said, is a transpiler but it's just that, if anyone mistakes Babel as a language they need to check what Babel does. So we just have one language, JavaScript, and two versions. Any confusion with this is the same as saying: "Oh, well, I get confused with C# not having support for Generics in C# 1.0 but having them in C# 2.0!"
I don't understand why you consider that React, Vue or Angular are not optional. You can just make any kind of development with pure JS the same way you can do it with PHP. React, Vue or Angular are the same as Laravel, .NET MVC, Flask or Spring: libraries to make your life easier, but if you want you can go ahead and do it without them.
Maybe in React it's hard to start a project (though given that it's the most famous view framework right now I highly doubt that there's no project like Spring Initilizr for it), I don't have experience with it, but in Angular or Vue here's how hard it is to start a new project.
Angular:
Vue:
And voilà, you just got yourself everything you need to start developing with a nice architecture and some example files. You DON'T need to learn Node if you're developing a front-end app, you DON'T need to use Yarn (it's the same as NPM, so what's the point if you don't want?), so what's your complaint here? That you need to learn some library to use that library?
Again, I agree that some parts of the JS ecosystem are a mess, the amount of libraries that are published in NPM for such trivial things like padding a string just because the developers are lazy enough to write a few couple of lines is awful, but your complaints here seem more like a problem with not knowing the ecosystem enough rather than a problem with the ecosystem itself.