While frameworks were once essential, this document argues they are no longer needed for web development. Modern web applications can be built with only lightweight libraries and no rigid MVC framework. A flexible, event-driven approach using RESTful web services, template rendering, resource aggregation, localization handling, specialized client-side libraries, reverse AJAX, and session clustering provides all that is required to build robust, scalable web applications and mobile apps. Frameworks impose constraints that are no longer necessary given current technologies.