Try mithriljs. It's the same idea as react for the view. I was having the same experience as you setting up angular and react applications and wanted to go bac

Try mithriljs. It's the same idea as react for the view. I was having the same experience as you setting up angular and react applications and wanted to go back to jQuery. Having done some react I wanted something similar that I could use the chrome debugger in easily and didn't require any transpilers. Very impressed with it so far. It only took a few hours for me to grok the documentation and start feeling productive.