>The key reason web frameworks dominate these days is that it's very hard to keep the UI in sync with state.
This isn't wrong, but going one level down, this is how it bites you:
- The imperative DOM api just suuuucks. Please try it for yourself to see. Even if you're writing a very limited bit of reactivity in your app, you will be forced to invent your own declarative framework very soon.
- Very hard to make reusable components (at least before webcomponents, which I haven't used personally)
If you want to stay close to vanilla, I recommend one of the following solutions:
This isn't wrong, but going one level down, this is how it bites you:
- The imperative DOM api just suuuucks. Please try it for yourself to see. Even if you're writing a very limited bit of reactivity in your app, you will be forced to invent your own declarative framework very soon.
- Very hard to make reusable components (at least before webcomponents, which I haven't used personally)
If you want to stay close to vanilla, I recommend one of the following solutions:
1) https://htmx.org/ 2) https://github.com/hyperhype/hyperscript 3) https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue