You can still type html css js and push it via php or cgi.
Not just theoretically, but literally. I started an internal dashboard with just flask and bootstrap. When I needed some nice interactive graphs, I found dC.js and added it.
Then my forms got more and more complex and I just added Vue.js to the same pages. I now got extremely interactive and intuitive static html pages that interacted with the server side only when they needed to. All in one file.
Now my team is starting to take over the project and our form has 100s of fields, so we are migrating to a proper build system with svelte.
I have done amateur web dev from 1997 till now. It has never been easier to choose the system with the correct amount of complexity and boilerplate you want to be maximally productive.
Not just theoretically, but literally. I started an internal dashboard with just flask and bootstrap. When I needed some nice interactive graphs, I found dC.js and added it.
Then my forms got more and more complex and I just added Vue.js to the same pages. I now got extremely interactive and intuitive static html pages that interacted with the server side only when they needed to. All in one file.
Now my team is starting to take over the project and our form has 100s of fields, so we are migrating to a proper build system with svelte.
I have done amateur web dev from 1997 till now. It has never been easier to choose the system with the correct amount of complexity and boilerplate you want to be maximally productive.