What do I lose without JS framework?

Ionic Framework
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Hi all, and thanks for the help!

Can Ionic be fully utilized with vanilla JS? I saw the mention of the necessary scripts on CDN, here: Ionic Framework Packages: CDN, Angular, Vue, and React. However, I noticed that ionic start forces the selection of Angular, Vue, or React. Also, and though three years old, I saw that the Ionic CEO mentioned that the navigation animations would be missing in Vanilla JS, here: Reddit - Dive into anything.

By skipping a JS framework, will my Ionic app miss any Ionic features, such as navigation animations?

Thanks again!

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It seems that the animations still exist looking at the example for ion-router - ion-router: Router Component to Coordinate URL Navigation

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Thanks! Yes, the component APIs seem to be available for navigation, including the animations. It appears that the JS framework Ionic components take care of some non-trivial work of hooking up user actions to navigation changes and animations, such as here: Vue IonRouterOutlet.

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I don’t have any experience using plain JS with Ionic (Vue user here), but I would guess using a JS framework is going to be easier and a better experience.

Maybe someone else can chime in who is using plain JS with Ionic.