If you need something a bit less esoteric and want a traditional, straightforward approach to building web apps with JavaScript: https://github.com/cheatcode/jo

If you need something a bit less esoteric and want a traditional, straightforward approach to building web apps with JavaScript: https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick. Add an Express route -> tell it to render a component/HTML via a res.render() function -> it auto-hydrates everything on the client for you. Components are written in plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (no JSX or other funky syntax) with a quick-to-grok API. No new concepts to learn and keeps you as close to the core technology (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) as possible.