Disclosure: This article was drafted with the assistance of AI-powered tools. I guided, edited, and refined the concepts to match my personal philosophy. The truth is simple: AI is a powerful accelerator, and I am not pretending otherwise.
1. Vanilla JS in 2024 and Beyond? Absolutely.
I am a Vanilla JS enthusiast. I build frontend applications using native Web APIs and backend services using Node.js built-ins. I reach for standard platform features first.
Why? Because since 2007, I’ve been reading code—open source, closed source, enterprise systems, and weekend hobby projects. I’ve seen enough dependency deprecations, breaking changes, and supply-chain security vulnerabilities to know when to avoid unnecessary abstractions. AI simply makes me faster at writing clean, standard-compliant vanilla code.
Do I outright ban React, Vue, Angular, or Express? No. I just rarely need them for what I am building today. With modern features like native ESM, Import Maps, fetch, and Node's built-in test runners and watch modes, the native platform has never been stronger.
