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Other than for learning purposes or very lean projects, you'll de-framework yourself just so that you have to spend extra time rebuilding it instead of focusing on the essence of your project

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This is the common wisdom about frameworks but I think it ignores the wastage & other side effects around frameworks and the things they make easy or difficult. Many of the decisions made in any framework will represent guardrails for things that don’t apply to you specifically.

I know you’ll “write your own framework” but maybe that’s optimal in some situations - more than we might give credit to at the moment.

I really wish web components weren't promoted as a "framework alternative" and more of a standardization of custom display components. Frameworks like enhance.dev and lit.dev are good examples of this.

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