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In my experience, just having the ability to "modularize" the common elements on pages of a site (navbar and footer, for example) is the biggest task for most simple websites. There are lots of frameworks out there that do this, at the expense of making everything else on the website "html with extra steps". React comes close to solving this, but there's not a "react lite" that does it more elegantly that I know of.