>Every alternative to the big frameworks (looking at you htmlx) feel like minor syntaxic sugar for jQuery and friends
True
>which feels like a massive step backwards and completely the wrong choice for building a web app.
Why?
I mean, I'd agree if by 'web-app' you mean something like google-sheets.
But I believe this whole "anti-react" movement isn't talking about such usecases, but rather against defaulting frameworks and building using them 'from the ground up', where trully all the website actually need is the "sparkling of interactivity on top"
True
>which feels like a massive step backwards and completely the wrong choice for building a web app.
Why?
I mean, I'd agree if by 'web-app' you mean something like google-sheets.
But I believe this whole "anti-react" movement isn't talking about such usecases, but rather against defaulting frameworks and building using them 'from the ground up', where trully all the website actually need is the "sparkling of interactivity on top"