> To me, the browser is the UI framework It's not. It's a haphazard collection of hacks and one-off solutions that first grew organically, then not at all, the

> To me, the browser is the UI framework It's not. It's a haphazard collection of hacks and one-off solutions that first grew organically, then not at all, then got taken over by bizarre corporate interests. > I don’t know what’s a good source to actually get a web app running locally that I can eventually deploy online. You need the backend part for this that handles for submission. For the frontend you need a static web page with just HTML and CSS. So I would stop looking at JS to keep your sanity, and look at a simple PHP or Python or Ruby framework/lib that will give you the scaffolding to handle form submissions and templating to create an HTML page. Like Sinatra. Since you already do .net I presume, you can go ahead and do that in ASP.net :)