Picked vanilla JS over a framework for my first todo app

After 3 weeks of tutorials I kept going back and forth between React and plain JavaScript for my first real project. I chose vanilla JS because I wanted to see how the DOM actually works before adding layers on top. It took me about 4 evenings to build, and yeah, the code got messy with all the event listeners. But when it finally worked in the browser, I felt like I understood the pieces better than if I'd just copied a tutorial. Now I'm wondering if learning the framework first would have gotten me building faster, or if I'm just slower than most beginners? Has anyone else started with the bare bones approach and regretted it or felt it paid off later?

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