I don't even think mooTools and friends were really frameworks as we know them today. They were really just some kind of standard library that let you plug in f

I don't even think mooTools and friends were really frameworks as we know them today. They were really just some kind of standard library that let you plug in fancy UX widgets and stuff... I dunno if the distinction really matters though. But I do know they weren't even in the same league of frameworks like angular or react. I guess the difference is these new frameworks are all about letting javascript generate virtually the entire page. MooTools and friends were designed where the majority of the page was old-fashioned HTML being spat out by the backend.