> the idea of me making a fun mess around project to learn web today literally gives me anxiety, hell even using sqarespace is an unrewarding utilized journey.
I think vanilla javascript isn't too hard, but it is kind of hard to find easy and fun onramps to it.
This reference is what recently inspired me to do some things in vanilla javascript: https://htmldom.dev
github search came up with this which reminds me of retro DHTML sites: https://github.com/Vishal-raj-1/Awesome-JavaScript-Projects
There seem to be a number of interesting things on github, e.g.:
https://github.com/bradtraversy/vanillawebprojects
https://github.com/snipcart/learn-vanilla-js