The Baseline Costs of JavaScript Frameworks
>Or consider not using a framework at all. For websites that primarily display content, it’s more efficient and cost-effective to just send some server-rendered HTML down the wire. If there are areas of your website that require interactivity, you can always use JavaScript to build those specific parts.This should be the takeaway from the article. There's absolutely no need for javascript on most websites that use javascript. I understand if you're forced into it by the time and economic contingencies of your work but if you bring JS frameworks home to your personal sites you're doing it wrong.