It looks all these rants are from people who need "Hello World" equivalent of web and are angry that there are tools for more complex use cases. I am primarily a backend developer with couple of decades of experience, who is now working on his own startup. I have built a simple HTML/JS site as our launch page. But I would kick out anyone who'll suggest that we should use plain HTML/JS instead of a frontend framework for our main app.
A form submission is not just a post submit. You have to do client+server error handling, dynamically show/hide/add fields, show char count, handle intermittent state and still more. All of these are possible with JS but is faster and more reliable with a purpose-built library. Same goes for a draggable dashboard, filters for search results...
A form submission is not just a post submit. You have to do client+server error handling, dynamically show/hide/add fields, show char count, handle intermittent state and still more. All of these are possible with JS but is faster and more reliable with a purpose-built library. Same goes for a draggable dashboard, filters for search results...