Oh definitely -- when you can get stuff done with pure javascript it's beautiful -- but once you notice yourself doing too much, it's time to pick one of these

Oh definitely -- when you can get stuff done with pure javascript it's beautiful -- but once you notice yourself doing too much, it's time to pick one of these small frameworks. BTW, you should check out Mithril[0], it's my current favorite, it's very small and self-contained yet very complete. It's got a slow, cautious moving community, and just enough of what you need and virtually nothing you don't -- very easy to use without bundling at all. Also, the web components spec[1] is on the horizon and once it lands (and most frameworks support some mode where they spit out web components) we're going to get interop for free. Also pro tip if you're going to start a new project these days and you need to get in the whole bundling swamp, use parcel. It's amazing, almost always zero config or close to it, and just works[2]. [0]: https://mithril.js.org https://mithril.js.org [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components [2]: https://parceljs.org/ https://parceljs.org/