I wrote a blog post about doing things in vanilla JavaScript. I'm really not a fan of frameworks, and since I'm currently working on a website redesign, I thought I'd write my thoughts here.
https://francisrubio.antaresph.dev/writing/building-websites-with-vanilla/
Before anyone misconstrues this blog post, I am not saying that frameworks are bad. I'm just saying that what these frameworks are doing is doable by hand to some extent, and that I like doing that because that's just me.
Also, this post is from someone who hasn't touched ReactJS or Vue in, like, ever, so take it with a spoon of salt at least.
Also, this post by Noam Rosenthal is a very helpful one. I clung to this post since I first read it. I've built many websites just by using this article.
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/web-frameworks-guide-part2/
@teacherbuknoy thanks for sharing this! I loved reading your post.
Have you seen my followup article?
https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2022/an-html-first-mental-model/
... while building a fast movies app Overview The Movies App The TasteJS movies app is a showcase for different frameworks. I was excited about it because it gave me an opportunity to test some hypothesis, and see if it holds in the context of an app that's a bit less trivial than TodoMVC.
Francis Rubio 
Noam Rosenthal