The point is that front-end libraries are not as critical as most of today's web developers think they are. Sure, you can use a well-known templating library on

The point is that front-end libraries are not as critical as most of today's web developers think they are. Sure, you can use a well-known templating library on the back end to assist in constructing HTML before you output it. But once the HTML is in the browser, 90% of it is page-based documents with some CRUD sprinkled on top. Front-end libraries are rarely required given modern HTML/CSS and modern back-end languages like PHP/RoR/Python or even JS, and it's front-end libraries that are the causing the bloat. There's no need to develop from scratch: Use third party libraries on the back end to output plain HTML/CSS on the front end.