Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?

A developer on Hacker News questioned whether using Claude Code reduces the need for front-end frameworks like React, reporting that the AI tool enables building complex internal applications with pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The developer noted that frameworks now feel like an implementation detail since all development happens through Claude, and that the low time cost of rolling custom solutions has reduced their reliance on libraries.

| |||||||||||| 1 point by | Does using claude code make you more/less likely to use front end frameworks? I've been using it for a while to develop internal tools and I've been really impressed at how you can build complex applications with just pure HTML/CSS/JS Previously I'd use React but now its not as clear to me the reason I would do that since either way I would just be developing through Claude. It feels almost like the framework is just an implementation detail. I find myself using a lot less libraries in general as well. It kind of gives you a bit of NIH syndrome since the time cost is so low to roll your own sometimes. | ||||||||||| |