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Back in 2000ish, a singular dude built a full-blown bank teller workplace app using IE4.0 proprietary features and client-side JS. Server communication was done by posting a form into a single-pixel frame and then looking for objects in the DOM of the returned html. It was fast, robust and scalable.

You have been conditioned to think frameworks are necessary. That’s not true. You can build anything without them and it would probably be better in many ways. Would you spend a ton of time? Yes. Would your code be harder to maintain? Yes. But it is absolutely doable and not as hard as you’d think