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Is that true though?

In the article he mentions how a lot of the web frameworks don't have to worry about handling tabindex because the browser does it for them.

I have also yet to find another non-web UI framework that handles styling nearly as well as CSS. Between flexbox, grid, and absolute positioning, you have so much power for creating layouts. Throw in some drop shadows and borders to help highlight the important UI pieces and bam.

I think the common critique of React, Vue, etc on HN is fair when talking about people building simple websites with these highly sophisticated and massively overkill tools. But when it comes to applications I have yet to find something nearly as flexible and good looking with so little work. And they do it by using HTML and CSS which as it turns out are pretty good abstractions to build on. Or at least they are from my perspective as someone who's been using a variety of these frameworks for the past 5 years or so, on quite a few medium sized projects.