Ask HN: Developing Vanilla JavaScript/DOM PWAs, is this a marketable skill?

1 points by resume384 6 years ago | 1 comment

Native web has continued to improve in feature and compatibility where one can make applications using Vanilla JavaScript direct DOM manipulation and the various native WebAPIs. Though it's a bit more verbose, doing so feels to me cognitively lighter than using common frameworks and development chains and feels more likely to be around years from now. I've come to enjoy and perhaps even prefer making progressive web apps this way. Are we to a place where primarily native web development makes sense?

phillipseamore 6 years ago |

Everything's plain vanilla for me. It's a lot less code, way easier to manage and is a lot faster (as long as you know what you are doing). I work on rather niche products so there are a lot of components that need to be designed, engineered and built from scratch anyways (e.g. very few ready made modules/components are an import away).

I'd hope that actually knowing core javascript, the DOM and APIs must make you a more valuable dev.