[z3t4]

I can see all sides of the arguments here. I do love API's, but I hate "frameworks", especially when they consist of useless functions like

  function _MY_framework.enterprise.displayMessageInConsole(msg) {
    console.log(msg);
  }

That does something that would actually be easier in vanilla JS. All years of writing JS may have made me blind, but that's how I see most JS frameworks. Mostly useless.

That said, manipulating the DOM in JS is a PITA. I can totally understand why you would want to do it another way.

I guess the DOM is not meant to be manipulated with ... And breaks if JS is turned off.

I think in the near future in maybe 5-6 years we'll see apps that are a mix of Browser and Native. That has the protected environment like a browser, that ask for permission to use hardware features, that can be accessed through high level API's, have native performance and run by typing an domain address much like WWW.