Thank you for writing this article.<p>I&#x27;m an iOS&#x2F;Backend developer looking to do some lightweight front-end programming, and whenever I look at the JS landscape I shudder.<p>Nearly every suggestion from JS developers is on the line &quot;Have you tried &quot;React&#x2F;Angular&#x2F;Ember&#x2F;ObscureJS?&quot;. The Grunt&#x2F;Gulp&#x2F;Yeoman&#x2F;Bower&#x2F;Npm&#x2F;Batman.js etc toolchain makes me question my sanity. Is it so difficult to just use Plain Old JavaScript™ and be done with it?<p>Sorry for the rant, I wish novice JS developers like us had a better way to get initiated in the JS land.