Yeah, I used git and ignored node_modules. Honestly, most of the problems are related to Windows. Whenever I try to use anything geared towards web dev, there are just more issues on Windows. Tons of dependencies that change all the time doesn't help. Most of the web dev industry is on Linux or Mac. It's not all related to Windows though. Just updating packages/frameworks is scary.
Setting up Jekyll was tough, even on WSL. I've opened issues on projects, and they would update the project to say that Windows is not supported (though IDK if node was the issue there). I bought a Macbook solely to deploy iOS apps, but it is way easier to develop anything related to web on it.
Again, this is coming from someone who doesn't do web dev full time, so I'd probably resolve issues faster if I did, but for my side projects, it's too much maintenance. I just want to be productive if I have an hour or so a day. Flutter lets me do that. I write code, code runs on Android and iOS. It's easy. No react/vue/angular, webpack, bootstrap, scss, typescript definition files, or other 'magic' to worry about.
Again, this is coming from someone who doesn't do web dev full time, so I'd probably resolve issues faster if I did, but for my side projects, it's too much maintenance. I just want to be productive if I have an hour or so a day. Flutter lets me do that. I write code, code runs on Android and iOS. It's easy. No react/vue/angular, webpack, bootstrap, scss, typescript definition files, or other 'magic' to worry about.