[chuckadams]

> The vast majority of devs aren't (and shouldn't be) writing their own custom components.

Component frameworks are for doing exactly that, and they generally make it pretty easy, with no manual DOM manipulation required when state changes.

Rather than continue with my salty commentary, I suggest to anyone still reading to look at any other file in the example project and draw their own conclusions: https://github.com/squaresapp/rawjs-sample