I am currently working on an app at work that wants SPA functionality, but they won't let me use any of the frameworks. Tons of vanilla JS and Jquery. I am sure what I have written is probably considered a crime against humanity in some place.
Does it work? Yes. Is it an elegant and maintainable codebase? Not by my definition.
I’m thinking you could have a single file, jQuery-based, hand rolled version of some framework and get many of the benefits while still technically complying with the “no frameworks” rule. In the same way that you could reimplement Redux easily if you for some reason weren’t allowed to use it.
I suspect diffing performance would be the bottleneck but I wonder if you could come up with some weird half solution that worked for your particular use case.
I've not used Redux for anything before, but I will look into for sure. I've heard the name thrown around a few times on here, and I could probably use something like that. Just nothing that would require a staunch learning curve to use.
I doubt I will be able to roll my own version of whatever these project due mainly because of time constraints and because I am the only developer working on it. Since we have adopted all the Agile stuff, Sprints are basically deadlines and not very...Agile.