> I really do hope this kind of developer attitude (writing pure VanillaJS) is coming back. If it's coming, it's coming for the first time. Way back in the fi

> I really do hope this kind of developer attitude (writing pure VanillaJS) is coming back. If it's coming, it's coming for the first time. Way back in the first decade of this century, when JavaScript was first transitioning from a language you wanted to learn as little of as possible to a language you might actually want to learn, jQuery sprang up as a way to deal with browser incompatibilities. I went to a jQuery conference where people were advised to really learn JavaScript and use it where possible, not always relying on jQuery. I don't think that advice was widely heeded. React took over from jQuery and has the same problem. People learn the library first and slowly pick up the language, hopefully, as time goes on.