# Developing small JavaScript components WITHOUT frameworks

DevFeed: [Developing small JavaScript components WITHOUT frameworks](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/developing-small-javascript-components-without-frameworks-32299.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://jack.ofspades.com/developing-small-javascript-components-without-frameworks/>)

Author: Jack Tarantino

Published: 2016-04-17T20:11:45Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Jacopo Tarantino](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jacopo-tarantino.md>)

Topics: [Vanilla JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vanilla-js.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [Frameworks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frameworks.md>)

Tags: [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [frameworks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frameworks.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial argues that small JavaScript components can often be built with vanilla JavaScript instead of frameworks, plugins, and other tooling. It uses a programmatically generated employee list for a corporate homepage to examine the problem scope and question whether heavier tools are necessary.

## Source excerpt

You too can write vanilla JavaScript! A mistake that a lot of developers make when they first approach a problem (me included!) is to start thinking about the problem from the top down. They start thinking of the problem at hand in terms of frameworks and plugins and pre-processors and