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by 1marc 1508 days ago
With some patterns they can follow, vanilla js does indeed scale so well that it becomes boring. There’s no longer any code to rewrite for the latest and greatest frameworks. No dependencies to manage. It just becomes almost too easy at some point, at least in my experience with many projects I’ve led.

I’ve made millions and millions for major brands, including my own company, and customers go “wow how is your site so fast!!” All. The. Time.

The biggest pressure I’ve found is from the engineers themselves. Not all engineers like to go counter culture and learn browser APIs and JavaScript. They would simply like to use what everyone else is using. They tend to argue against vanilla using canned arguments read off of framework websites that don’t apply much or aren’t even problems in the actual codebase.

:shrug: