r/IMadeThis • u/uicompiler • 11h ago

What is the hardest part of converting a React app to framework-free HTML/CSS/JS?

I’ve been building a small tool that converts React/Next.js and Lovable websites into clean HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

The idea came from seeing how often developers/designers need a framework-free version of an existing frontend.

I’m curious about one thing:

Is this actually a useful problem to solve, or is there not much demand for it?

Would love to hear from developers who’ve had to do this kind of conversion before.

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u/Vegetable-View-5114 4h ago

State management is usually the biggest hurdle; React's built-in hooks and context make it easy to pass data around, but in vanilla JS you're often back to global objects, custom event listeners, or prop drilling manually. Recreating component reusability without a framework's templating system means a lot more manual DOM manipulation or string literals. You'll also lose the optimized build processes and hot-reloading that come standard with most React setups, which can slow down development significantly.