I don't think vanilla HTML/CSS/JS is the way to go for beginners because of the "time to visually interesting results" problem. Starting with a framework that has widgets you can reuse is much more interesting and motivating.
That said, I'd argue that the selected framework should be one that doesn't completely obscure all the underlying HTML/CSS/JS (I'd avoid TypeScript at first) from them so it's easy to learn that when needed, plus it makes debugging using browser dev tools easier and means they'll have transferable skills for learning a second framework.
GWT (RIP, thank goodness) would be the extreme negative example, but React is on that side of the spectrum as well.
Vue, Svelte, Lit, and Angular seem to be the most popular frameworks on the "closer to HTML/CSS/JS" side of the spectrum, though I only have experience with the last two. Lit's great; Angular's not my favorite.
> I don't think vanilla HTML/CSS/JS is the way to go for beginners because of the "time to visually interesting results" problem.
I don't think it's worth beginners learning the road rules and safety protocols, because of the "time to being responsible for a heavy, fast motor-vehicle sharing a road with other people" problem.
I'm surprised to not see NEXT.js mentioned. For anyone comfortable in the React world it pushes a much more classic <a> tag link model throughout the app while still allowing reactive and responsive behaviours.
That said, I'd argue that the selected framework should be one that doesn't completely obscure all the underlying HTML/CSS/JS (I'd avoid TypeScript at first) from them so it's easy to learn that when needed, plus it makes debugging using browser dev tools easier and means they'll have transferable skills for learning a second framework.
GWT (RIP, thank goodness) would be the extreme negative example, but React is on that side of the spectrum as well.
Vue, Svelte, Lit, and Angular seem to be the most popular frameworks on the "closer to HTML/CSS/JS" side of the spectrum, though I only have experience with the last two. Lit's great; Angular's not my favorite.