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There eventually has to be JavaScript somewhere, and once you have to use that for any dynamic frontend, might as well use a proper JS/TS framework.

Not being a frontend person first, I have learned to choose whatever they are using these days. It will be hard to hire, onboard, and maintain anything that strays too far for the normal patterns they use.

Next has skyrocketed in popularity for a reason. It makes the React DX much better, losing a lot of the config hell from other framework/library amalgamations

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> There eventually has to be JavaScript somewhere, and once you have to use that for any dynamic frontend, might as well use a proper JS/TS framework.

Yes, totally understand it's hard to escape JS in Web frontend. Even writing a simple dropdown requires a little bit of JS.

> Not being a frontend person first, I have learned to choose whatever they are using these days. It will be hard to hire, onboard, and maintain anything that strays too far for the normal patterns they use.

Since this is for my hobby project, it's more fun to be a irrational ;) I use standard React at work.

> Next has skyrocketed in popularity for a reason. It makes the React DX much better, losing a lot of the config hell from other framework/library amalgamations

Need to check Next again, I tried it many years back and it was good.

If you really want, you can avoid JS for drop down menus too. I've seen the CSS hover [1] and the summary/details [2] approach before. My recent sites use Bulma for all the styling, so the only JavaScript I'm using is the toggle for the navbar burger icon on small screens [3].

[1] https://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_dropdowns.asp

[2] https://codepen.io/Ajay-Anand/pen/OJoZjPd

[3] https://bulma.io/documentation/components/navbar/

"might as well"

Those are the most expensive 3 words in the english language!

It's very natural for humans to avoid choice perplexity and deviating from the norm when an unknown ROI or LOI is involved for alternatives. Sticking with the tried and true certainty has value and can reduce unforeseen or secondary "costs"

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