Mamadou DIARRA (Afrocodeur) @afrocodeur

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Jul 31, 2025

You don’t need more than… the DOM.

Publish Date: Aug 19

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Imagine this:
Every HTML element can be enriched, listened to, updated…
Without losing its native nature.
No virtual DOM.
No magic.

No transformations.
Just a thin layer to stay close to your intent.

And the best part?
The same code works everywhere — whether you import it via a CDN or use it in a bundled project.

Next week: I’ll share what I’ve been building in this direction.

Ingo Steinke, web developerAug 19, 2025
Thanks for your post! Vanilla JS is enough in many cases. Most static websites don't need much frontend JavaScript or none at all, especially no JS library or framework. I'm still wondering about your recent post though where you import ... from 'X' in your screenshot, which, to me, looks like using a framework (while we have native DOM manipulation methods in vanilla JS).
- Mamadou DIARRA (Afrocodeur)Aug 19, 2025
  Be patient and curious. As you can see, the main goal is to make working with the native DOM easier.
  It will absolutely be possible not to use the framework itself, but simply adopt its ideology.