i feel like i would've had similar feelings had i not learned (and pretty much fell in love with) clojure some years ago. now whether it's backend or frontend or even seamless code sharing between both - i am totally covered. react wrappers in clojure get unreal synergies with language design choices (immutable by default, convenient nested data structure manipulation, etc), things like this one - http://maksm.net/crypto-calculator/ is 100 lines of code including html templates.

obviously this all means having to learn another language but i dont need to touch js ever again and i'll take that trade any day.