[px43]

AngularJS seemed to be the last well supported fronted library that let me just write JavaScript, and not need to pull in the entire node ecosystem just for making a simple website.

It's insane to me that websites need to be compiled these days. My websites mostly consist of an index.html and a code.js, and then unzipping whatever goofy template into the js, css, images folders etc. I feel like requiring a fluent understanding of the entire node ecosystem build even the simplest websites is a big enough hurdle that a lot of enthusiastic new people are just going to give up and do something else.