[ramon156]

Frameworks aren't necessary in the same way that high level languages aren't necessary. It depends, it always does

If you want to ship an MVP next week and you spend 6 days setting up your env, you've already failed. If you can get a framework with at least 80% of the features you need, suddenly you have 6.5 days left to build the product

[austin-cheney]

If it takes you 6 days to set up your environment there are bigger problems than framework choice at play. It does not take more than a couple hours to fully prototype some HTML and some JavaScript/TypeScript in the backend.