> To be clear though: I’m not arguing the dependencies are bad or don’t have any benefits at all or that vanilla coding is a superior way. Coding this way takes longer and the resulting codebase has more lines of code, and web components are “uglier” than framework components.

If you do it long enough, presumably you start to develop your own miniature "framework" (most likely really just some libraries, i.e. not inverting control and handing it over to your previous work). After all, it's still programming; JS isn't exceptional even if it has lots of quirks.

Anyway, love the website concept, just a quick petition: would it be possible to apply some progressive enhancement/graceful degradation love to <x-code-viewer> such that there's at least the basic preformatted text of the code displayed without JS?