Has traditional DOM manipulation become a thing of the past?

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It seems like most employers are asking for experience in JS frameworks like React or Vue. Do you think traditional DOM manipulation has become a thing of the past?

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For web applications frameworks provide significant advantages, and more and more software is taking the form of large an complex web applications. For websites frameworks are an unnecessary weight.

Although I work in Angular, my unit tests often rely on a fair amount of DOM inspection using good old JavaScript.

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