I'm pretty happy with just vanilla JavaScript. I don't do typescript, I don't use frameworks (unless you consider express to be a framework). I use vanilla we

I'm pretty happy with just vanilla JavaScript. I don't do typescript, I don't use frameworks (unless you consider express to be a framework). I use vanilla web components on the front end, if I need reactivity and frequent re-renders I might sprinkle in a bit of lit-html, depending on the component. Debugging and development are brain dead simple, just sticking to the standards. I had a new developer come into my code base and he said "I couldn't believe it at first, you just write something and it does it... Wow!". He was so used to piles of frameworks and build systems and stuff, he'd never been in a code base that just... ran.