You are absolutely right; web development is unnecessarily complex when you use frameworks such as React. But there are alternatives! Here's an example applic

You are absolutely right; web development is unnecessarily complex when you use frameworks such as React. But there are alternatives! Here's an example application built without heavy frameworks. It is very maintainable and easy to understand: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka It uses two 500-line libs: This is the component "framework", it is 500 lines: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder This is the router, it is 500 lines: https://github.com/wisercoder/mvc-router https://github.com/wisercoder/mvc-router