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Some time ago I myself was in camp of people who preferred minimal web as opposed to all these "bloated" frameworks. But one thing that changed me is Tailwind, it improves the complicated stupid old way I wrote CSS classes so much that all people who keep hating it just because it's one of those "bloated" things of modern webdev are just ridiculous.

Then I tried React, quite liked it but preference for something as small and fast as possible lead me to Preact. And as I have no need for hosting websites with backend (I just want client-side interactivity so static pages) I found how to do prerender workflow where all necessary html is generated at build time and interactivity gets hydrated on top of that by bundled js module. It's so much better than trying to figure out pure js interactions in site made with static generator with some obscure templating.

Though for some reason people nowadays mainly focus on running site as SSR through Node rather than just hosting static pages and figuring out static build workflow in those frameworks can be very challenging.