Vanilla JS is not something we should be afraid of. I wish we’d consider it more often in projects. The latest generations, ES2020 and newer, are pretty useful

Vanilla JS is not something we should be afraid of. I wish we’d consider it more often in projects. The latest generations, ES2020 and newer, are pretty useful and pleasant to use. If you leverage their features, it goes a long way. Implementing the odd missing function yourself along the way is perfectly doable if you embrace TDD. My feeling is that people in the JS ecosystem tend to overestimate how much time they’d allegedly waste re-implementing stuff, and grossly underestimate the true cost of deeply-nested dependency trees.