If you're having trouble integrating a library into your framework, then the library is probably the one that's poorly designed. I say this as the 'maintainer'

If you're having trouble integrating a library into your framework, then the library is probably the one that's poorly designed. I say this as the 'maintainer' for ng2-dragula (glue code for dragula), which is equally great and terrible. Great: the dragula library handles lots of common drag/drop patterns. Not great: it relies 100% on the jQuery model of 'truth in the DOM', and the glue code makes a feeble attempt at flipping that around. When you drag, it literally moves the element and notifies you that it has done so. If you want to customize it, you reply to callbacks that give you the literal elements, and maybe read a data-attr off them. The glue code can automatically mutate an array to match what happened in the DOM, which has been an unmitigated disaster judging by the hundreds of GitHub issues mostly about this one thing. The problem isn't the restrictive framework that doesn't let you do what you want, it's the API that's not designed for rendering from a non-DOM data model. If you ask 'would it be easier with vanillaJS?' the answer is no – it would still be a stupid way to write drag and drop code, unless you were coding your vanillaJS in an equally abhorrent way.