I used to hate frameworks when I first learned javascript many years ago, and I refused to use jquery, backbone, ember and whatever else existed. but then for some reason I found myself creating a kind of framework for my own use inside my small personal projects all the time. basically I would develop abstractions for handling and updating state, but my pseudo-frameworks always failed miserably because I couldn't get my updated state to be reflected into UI in an abstracted manner, I tried.