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by bmuon 1812 days ago
Yes and no.

Browser differences are mostly disappearing, they have gained some very good APIs are CSS has gained significant layout capabilities with grids and flex. So the need for libraries like jQuery for dealing with DOM differences is disappearing. New standard libraries like Intl and now Temporal make libraries like Moment obsolete.

The web is also gaining a component model with Web Components that will help you get some level of sanity when building some mildly complex reusable stuff. This is probably very good for content heavy sites, which make the majority of the web.

The other part of the web is applications running on top of the Web platform. Those still heavily benefit from frameworks. Having some amount of sanity when managing state is very much welcome. And functional programming models have proven that a declarative way of approaching UIs is much better than dealing with browser APIs imperatively.

So for some years frameworks will still be useful for certain use cases. For the others, we should be embracing Web technologies. Maybe with some light libraries like Stencil and Catalyst.