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While I want to agree, at the same time I'm afraid of people creating their own frameworks, re-inventing the wheel, etc. Mind you, Angular feels like a very heavyweight framework, so that would be the other side of the coin.

Personally I wouldn't go for a vanilla JS application, not unless the script / application part of it are minimal.

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I should have been more clear - my point is not so much that people should use vanilla JS rather than a framework, it’s more that the majority of SPAs I’m forced to interact with could have been implemented just as well with HTML, CSS, and a relatively small amount of JavaScript - small enough to not beg for any kind of framework at all. If the nature of the app really truly demands a full-blown SPA, then by all means go all in on something like React.

The answer in this case is to use Vue or Svelte. Super light weight and avoids the pitfalls of re-inventing the wheel.

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