Webpages were designed to avoid complex state management. URLs, HTML and forms, i.e the original REST, is a model with a lot of power and flexibility, and almos

Webpages were designed to avoid complex state management. URLs, HTML and forms, i.e the original REST, is a model with a lot of power and flexibility, and almost none of the complexity of desktop UI toolkits. Frontend web frameworks have their use in rich apps, but using them for general web pages is just complicating things for no good reason.