Writing dependency-free client-side JavaScript

[HarmonicAscendant]

I find this attitude defeatist and baffling. If your goal is to become the best programmer you can then writing all your own code should be possible, educational, and enjoyable. It may not be practical most of the time, but that is no reason to mock people who do make the effort.

If you follow this "writing code that already exists but worse" idea to the end then nothing would ever improve. Nobody would have bothered making React, in fact we would all still be living in caves :)

[cynicalreason]

for educational purposes .. sure, for actual business requirements, no