You definitely need nodejs for all kinds of angular, ember, react, etc. frameworks?

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Good evening. Studying all the named frameworks, I realized one thing, does everyone need a node? It wasn't like that before.
I remember using ember js, I needed the framework itself with a couple of its "plugins", handlebars and that's it. Everything worked great. Right now, everything has become so complicated that in order to simply use js on the client, I need to drag a lot of different dependencies.
Help me understand, thank you!

Answer 1

Studying all the named frameworks, I realized one thing, does everyone need a node?

Anything can be on the server, but for development, you usually need npm to install packages and grunt / gulp / webpack to build the application. And for both, a node on the developer's computer is needed, yes.

in order to just use js on the client, I need to drag a lot of different dependencies.

You yourself determine what to bring to the client. None of the frameworks pulls anything like this into the browser by itself.