What’s the best JavaScript framework?

Vanilla js is great they have an awesome website too. Go and download a copy!

The best JavaScript framework is always the one you haven’t used.

Angular? No Google or bust.
Vue? It's basically one guy, come on.
React? Boo, Facebook evil! And also pretty much one guy.
Preact? Get the FUCK OUT OF HERE.
Backbone? Stupid name, no way.
Ember? Come on now you're just making up names.
WebComponents? That's not.. has nothing to do wit.. just forget it.
Meteor? Yes take the spaghetti to the server, too no?

I don't know man, they all suck. Just throw a coin or something.

It depends

For a simple portfolio => VanillaJS
For a cool project to show=> React
For a complex app => Vue
For an enterprise-level app => Angular

That's all IMO 👻

Honestly? I've never had a better developer experience than in the late 2000s with backend-rendered templates with a sprinkling of jQuery for dynamic bits.

It was fast, accessible, worked in every browser, and if you did things right (caching, streaming the header before the body is ready, etc.), navigations felt seamless. We've still got some of these running that haven't been touched in a decade (other than updating dependencies and changing company themes).

But, when I really need the interactivity of a JS framework, my go-to is Vue, though I am very, very interested in the approach used by Svelte. I also really like Web Components with lit-element, but I feel there's still a bit of work to be done by the community to reduce the amount of plumbing needed to build a full app with them.

Wondering if anyone here has heard about thing called backbone.js. Though its an old framework, a large part of enterprise world still prefers it instead of modern ones like angular/vue.js.

On the backend or node side, express probably wins hands down.

Edit

I'm curious about the "popular" frameworks' popularity, so I've started a twitter poll myself. Do vote and let me know your choice!

DilithiumJs

Pending its completion.

import * as m from 'mithril'
import { Component } from 'monster'

import JourneyChapter from 'components/journey_chapter'

export default class Journey extends Component
  expects:
    chapters:
      presence: true
      array: true
    target: true
    user: true
  render:=>
    console.log 'chapters', @chapters
    m 'section.journey',
      m '.wrap',
        m '.section_title'
          m 'h3', 'Your Journey'
          m '.clear'
        m '.body',
          m '.chapters_wrap'
            m '.chapters',
              for chapter in @chapters
                m JourneyChapter,
                  chapter: chapter
                  target: target
                  user: user

It's used to power ExamPro and I've been working on an end-to-end tutorial on how to use it:

I organized the code into star trek-like departments

The CLI is also star trek inspired. So when you want to create a new app you type:

computer begin program <name-of-web-app>

Why create a new Javascript framework?
Modern framework feels over-engineered. I want to have the productivity that I used to have but I need a framework that is:

• isomorphic,
• solves all common use cases
• has a strong dsl
• with great documentation.