Comment by dividedbyzero

I wish it was easier to use no framework at all, no angular, vue, react ... but still benefit from npm/yarn package management, development server with hot reload and maybe even a test runner. As someone who only occasionally needs to build relatively simple frontends against existing APIs, using full-blown angular/react/vue just seems so wasteful. But the last time I tried to put such a setup together, I just couldn't make all the parts (yarn, webpack, jest, ...) work together, and lots of the various plain JS "starter" projects out there are broken as well. It's pretty bewildering – shouldn't this sort of thing be easy? Is there some kind of a vue-cli for frameworkless projects, or how do people get started building more lightweight web apps?