[yawnxyz]

I build a lot of micro sites, but I still use frameworks — like Deno (node alternative), Hono (for APIs), and Alpine.js (for tiny lightweight sites).

you don't have to though!

if you want to do more pure vanilla, understanding signals is really useful — this basically powers svelte's runs and react's hooks and whatever.

I love nanostores, a 286 byte (!) state manager that lets you build highly reactive pages w/o the weight: https://github.com/nanostores/nanostores

flexible tools like tinybase (https://github.com/tinyplex/tinybase) and unstorage (https://github.com/unjs/unstorage) are also super useful

tools like this lets you build highly reactive, engaging sites that load for under 50-100kb

[actinium226]

+1 for nanostores. It's great that it works standalone, but what's also nice is that they have tools to let you use it with React. It's much cleaner and more intuitive than React contexts which is how you're supposed to do global state in React, I think.