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Discussion on: Are there modern JavaScript frameworks without NodeJS dependency?

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Mostly they do, this is because you'll end up using a package for doing something and this package will also be used in any framework to reach the same. So you don't "reinvent the wheel".
A question would be Do you really need to avoid Node/npm? or it's just stubborness?

You can of course, reduce the frontend to html + css in the major part and just adding JS when needed. This way you don't really need npm or Node, but even that, it would be recommended to "bundle" your code through it (using webpack, parcel, rollup or whatever bundler of your choice) so your "output" or "dist" will be minified, optimised, ofuscated (sometimes) and so on.