Ask HN: What is the best framework for someone who doesn't know JavaScript?

If you don't want to learn JS but want to build something that feels like an SPA, you could try something like https://htmx.org or https://unpoly.com.

If learning JS is your goal, maybe Svelte as tamimio mentioned.

I'm a fan of https://unpoly.com.

I have been programming mostly in Python for several years. Modern JS has classes, async, await, etc - it has a lot in common with Python semantically. Of course, the syntax is different, but I got over that speed hump quickly.

Many years ago I did try CoffeeScript, but I found that debugging still requried JS coding, so I gave up on it. Perhaps it is a better option these days.

Learn svelte, the closest to vanilla, fast performance, you get sveltekit too.

Next.js