portfolio VS van

VanJS deserves a mention here! https://vanjs.org/

Another interesting thing is that other JSX libraries like Solid.JS also return DOM nodes, and I love that this idea is gaining traction

The closer we get to the platform we're using, the better. Being removed by layers of abstractions CAN be useful, but in practice, I haven't found a use for abstracting away the platform. (yet.)

Maybe huge projects like Facebook benefit from this tho (which I haven't worked on)

Depends on what you consider minimal, but I enjoy working with PocketBase and VanJS[1]. However there is no component library built in (if this is what you were asking for).

[1]: https://vanjs.org/

The library does have Typescript definitions available to use.

https://github.com/vanjs-org/van#typescript-support

It's a very simple, yet powerful reactive framework, to create web applications without the need to write any HTML. You don't need to build, use JSX, or compile. It works out of the box, and it's plain JS. Similar to VanJS in philosophy but with another flavour, and different features.

A web-based Unix terminal with notable improvements, built with VanJS - https://vanjs.org/. Under 300 lines in total.

We've seen numerous efforts to bring in more modernized terminals and shells. VanJS goes with the other direction. Why not making building UI apps as simple as CLI programs so most of us aren't confined to the limitations of terminals? Indeed, even for the quest of modernizing terminals, VanJS is pretty good at it.