I highly recommend vue. Bare minimum is to stick the js file in your html and you can start writing vue code. You technically don't need the whole node/npm ecos

I highly recommend vue. Bare minimum is to stick the js file in your html and you can start writing vue code. You technically don't need the whole node/npm ecosystem. In fact, even for more advanced Single File Components in vue (.vue files), I found this excellent library that does not require npm/node stuff : https://github.com/FranckFreiburger/http-vue-loader https://github.com/FranckFreiburger/http-vue-loader