Zero-Dependency vs Framework: Shipping a Tool as One HTML File

Zero-Dependency vs Framework: Shipping a Tool as One HTML File We reach for a framework by reflex now. New tool? create-react-app, or Vite, or Next. But for a whole class of focused tools, the right answer is nothing — no framework, no build step, one HTML file. I shipped a 3,000-item interactive tool this way and want to lay out the tradeoff honestly, because it's not always the right call. Portability. One file that runs on any OS, in any browser, offline, forever. No hosting, no deploy, no ru