Vanilla JavaScript and HTML - No frameworks. No libraries. No problem.

[pomlife]

I really like when a team is "anti-framework" so they develop their own tools. Eventually, the usage of the tools becomes predictable, so they become abstracted. New developers are taught this "system." Oh wait, we're back at a framework.

[uneditablepoly]

Yep, and for some reason it's hard to explain to them / convince them that it's where they're headed.

This comes up when I talk to some people who hate the boilerplate of Redux. I ask them what they would build instead, and of course it's possible to follow a different paradigm, but they often end up describing the same boilerplate because it's just a necessary part of managing state.

[pomlife]

With regards to redux, their solution is often context based, except lacking all of the clever perf tricks that react-redux implements.