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Any post or article where the author is like "Let's build a React" may emphasize vanilla JS. For example,

HEX: a No-Framework Approach to Building Modern Web Apps (2017)

https://medium.com/@metapgmr/hex-a-no-framework-approach-to-...

Manning has Build a Web Framework (From Scratch) in its Manning Early Access Program (MEAP):

https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-frontend-web-framework...

Web Components are a neat way to have <custom-tag /> stuff controlled by CSS. But you can forego that and use (BEM-named) values in class attributes.

Even just `document.querySelector` and `.querySelectorAll` gives some idea of vanilla JS. There's also (tongue-in-cheek)

http://vanilla-js.com/

This book for writing Javascript may still be relevant:

Reliable Javascript: How to Code Safely in the World's Most Dangerous Language (2015)

Hmm, code samples are no longer easily available. I would love to share it if Wrox Press (formerly) were cool with it.

And then there's places like Mozilla Developer Network (MDN):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

You mentioned backend. With just Node.js, you're technically running vanilla JS there too.

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