Ask HN: Is ChromeOS a viable platform for serious development?

I'm mainly a web developer (React on the front, PHP and Node on the back, some hybrid mobile with Ionic). I would like to buy a Chromebook but am not sure if that's enough of a machine for development work. The price for a machine with enough hardware seems to be at the point where I might as well just buy a Windows machine (and erase the SSD, install Linux and build out my dev environment there, of course).

Is there any reason for a developer to seriously consider a Chromebook as their main machine?