not trying to throw sympathy here for Facebook, but the team that owned that Python SDK was probably not at all related to the PyCon recruitment booth. Big organization, at least someone was trying to do the right thing
sorry you felt that way.unfortunately you dealt with the shit-show that is Angular + TypeScript, which is not beginner friendly AT ALL. I would ask you try using create-react-app, https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/, and drop jQuery. JS is really awesome now and everything that was "in" jQuery can be achieved through standard library.