So good to find someone else who went back to the 90ies stack!

After playing around with some react/vue/express/angular/younameit apps for various clients I am more than happy to escape the dependency hell and write efficient code in pure JS that load basically instantly and doesn't need a build environment in the first place. The last straw for me was spending over a day trying to find the right versions for node and all the packages involved to at least get a "legacy app" I inherited running.

I find that I don't even need jQuery anymore, support for things like closest() or a simple document.querySelector is so good that I save those few kb as well.