Last time I tried ExtJS, it struck me as a framework made by people who suffer from an extreme case of NIH syndrome. Personally, I prefer small, light framework

Last time I tried ExtJS, it struck me as a framework made by people who suffer from an extreme case of NIH syndrome. Personally, I prefer small, light frameworks that play with other frameworks well. I don't like big "uber" frameworks that re-implement everything. That's not value, in fact, it's negative value in my mind. If I want to manipulate the DOM or do AJAX I'll use JQuery, if I want to do data binding I'll use knockout.js, etc. But these are minor annoyances compared to the huge ExtJS no-no for me which is the fact that ExtJS seem to actually hate Javascript. Or, they targeted the framework towards people who'd rather write C++ in the browser - giant "class" hierarchies everywhere. Ugh.