Anti-frameworkism: Choosing native web APIs over frameworks
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Modern browsers now handle most problems that originally drove framework adoption—Web Components provide encapsulation, ES modules manage dependencies, and native APIs cover network requests. Despite this, developers still default to React or similar frameworks, trading user performance for developer convenience. An experiment shows AI tools reinforce this bias, generating React solutions that are 30× larger than vanilla JavaScript equivalents with identical functionality.
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