On: Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development

[throwaway0asd]

Then stop using these large frameworks. You don’t need them. They aren’t there to build your product for you. They are there to ease hiring.

When you return to vanilla JS you have the freedom to dramatically reduce your code size and increase performance.

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