JustHTML.dev — AI-Assisted, Vanilla-First Web Development

This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community The Community This project is for developers building small-to-medium web apps who feel forced into React/Vite stacks by default — even when their needs are simple. A lot of us experimented with tools like Lovable and Bolt.new. They’re powerful. They scaffold React/Vite/Vue apps instantly. But once AI entered the workflow — Claude, OpenAI, Copilot, Gemini — something changed. If AI can generate clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript directly… why are we defaulting to heavy frameworks for everything? This is for the builders who are thinking: “Is the complexity actually required — or just assumed?” What I Built I built JustHTML.dev — a curated directory of websites built with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No front-end frameworks. No client-side runtime layer. No dependency tree explosion. It’s not anti-framework. It’s just intentional. The site: Automatically analyzes and scores submissions Displays a public “Last Verified” sta