I consider myself to traditionally be a backend engineer, though this has more been something I fell into rather than chose.
I admit I feel I share some of your frustrations. In the past I have written production frontends in Angular and experimented with Vue and React. Out of all of them I found React to be the most enjoyable, but even then I still struggled with project setup and found the tooling confusing. I even quite like TS as a language, but I feel it's still quite limited by the fact it transpiles to JS.
Recently, I discovered yew [0]. It is a Rust framework for building frontends using wasm. I really appreciate the robustness that Rust brings such as ownership checks and ADTs. I don't think it's for everyone, but it may be worth looking at if you perhaps find modern frontend development confusing frustrating. I've found it to be quite the breath of fresh air.
If you do decide to have a look I found the examples [1] and getting started guide [2] very informative.
Conda installs conda packages and conda uses pip to install pip packages. However a pip package can be converted to a conda package, and then in that case the dependency will be installed by conda and not pip.
My understanding is mamba, like conda, just call pip. So it likely wouldn't make a difference.
The pip section in a env file is just a list of arguments passed through to the pip install command. Prior to pip 20.3 we had to add `--use-feature=2020-resolver` to get an install that resolved for our teams that used mamba.
You should check out this [0] GitHub action workflow. It uses docker machine to create a high resourced runner on demand in the cloud and then runs the subsequent job on it. The workflow is intended for machine learning but I'm sure it could be adapted. I must disclose that I haven't actually used it myself yet (because I haven't felt the need) but it does look very promising.
I think there is a lot of potential here from the perspective of improving type hinting. Decorators, which execute at runtime, often make type inference very challenging, this could go a long way to making this better. Further, it could also enable more performant static compilation, should one want to do that.
I admit I feel I share some of your frustrations. In the past I have written production frontends in Angular and experimented with Vue and React. Out of all of them I found React to be the most enjoyable, but even then I still struggled with project setup and found the tooling confusing. I even quite like TS as a language, but I feel it's still quite limited by the fact it transpiles to JS.
Recently, I discovered yew [0]. It is a Rust framework for building frontends using wasm. I really appreciate the robustness that Rust brings such as ownership checks and ADTs. I don't think it's for everyone, but it may be worth looking at if you perhaps find modern frontend development confusing frustrating. I've found it to be quite the breath of fresh air.
If you do decide to have a look I found the examples [1] and getting started guide [2] very informative.
[0] https://github.com/yewstack/yew
[1] https://github.com/yewstack/yew/tree/master/examples
[2] https://yew.rs/docs/en/getting-started/project-setup