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But... You can put JavaScript in plain html... You don't NEED a framework to have a dynamic site per say.

I'm trying to learn and the shit thing for someone new like me is I have a solid understanding of what's going on, I can build simple apps from scratch but I feel like now there's 500 frameworks to choose from and I don't know enough to make an educated decision when to pick one framework over the other. So naturally I've resorted to building everything from scratch. Which is probably good from a foundational understanding but I know I'm losing hella productivity by not using a framework.

Kieran 2y ago

I have up on vanilla js sites once I learned to use react, all you get is pain when you want to build anything more than a very fancy static site haha

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Sirius 2y ago

I originally started Iris without any framework and learned the hard way why frameworks are used. Now using preact, a lightweight react variant.

An Capone 🌗 2y ago

I don't know whether to love or hate you yet. Either way I am going down the preact rabbithole.

stoicpotato 2y ago

It's really impossible too make a good webapp and maintain it, without a good framework. Even a UI framework (tailwind/bootstrap etc.) Is pretty essential even if you have to make one yourself.

OceanSlim 2y ago

But why react? Why not Svelte, Angular, or node.js?

An Capone 🌗 2y ago

Node has a different use case, Angular is needlessly complicated and Svelte doesn't have a mature enough ecosystem.

React is not all that great. bit it has one giant advantage, which is it's huge ecosystem and userbase. Basically anything you do. there is a library for that optimized for react. Basically all libraries that could be used with react provide a react specific version or utilities.

Also for me, it was just that there is a lot of work for someone who knows react.