Why Vanilla JavaScript and Web Components Beat Modern Frameworks

Why Vanilla JavaScript

After building a complex music school platform entirely in Vanilla JavaScript and Web Components, I realized the browser is already the framework. The industry obsession with React, Angular, Vue, and Svelte introduces artificial complexity, forcing developers to surrender control over the DOM and state. Instead of relying on heavy build pipelines and TypeScript, we should embrace native web technologies to write simpler, more robust code.

"The browser engine is a huge and complex piece of software that handles so much for you that the only thing you really need is just to write dynamic files with HTML, CSS and JavaScript."