Qt!!!!

I've been building sites for decades and have never used a frontend framework, just html, css, JavaScript and sometimes jQuery.

But I'm currently working on learning React because apparently it's so popular, most full stack jobs are now requiring it.

In a perfect world I would only build the front end with Html and CSS. I like the simplicity and also the security it provides.

I really recommend nativewind to solve pretty much every gripe I have with styling react native, if you still want to give it a chance. Expo for instant cross platform updates by just publishing updated JavaScript (no more publishing updatdes in app store and play store!) Also, yup and Formik for form validation and react query for API calls. With these minimal libraries react native becomes a beast.

goober or in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, which, fun fact, goober was inspired by

If I need to do data binding, some simple Vue.js. Otherwise, vanilla js or jQuery.

If you didn't like react native (it has its quirks), you could try flutter, it's a lot more sane although I personally find the source code to be a lot harder to read after it's a bit bigger.

Godot