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That's why I like StimulusReflex (and Hotwire). Stimulus offers a very nice pattern for adding the small bits of additional JS you need without ad-hoc JS spaghetti, while letting you push the vast majority of the rest to the backend.

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Small bit of additional JS defeats the point of doing it at all. The moment you end up having to go outside one of these things you end up with one problem or another. The fact of the matter is that you will always have to deal with HTML, CSS and JS somewhere and you can try abstract it out and it always breaks down near the edges.

Also as a bit of an aside and it is a bit of a moan.

Coming from someone that can write everything from scratch and doesn't need framework. All of these things are horrible to work with (I've had to work with a bit of Blazor) and they just make it incredibly difficult to actually find out what is going on (especially when stuff doesn't work as advertised) as they just obfuscate what is going on.

Every job requires you to know some horrendous framework these that has about 10 layers of Rube Goldberg madness in there for one reason or another. People will be surprised what can be achieved with `document.createElement()` a few classes and a pub / sub class.