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What are the key strengths of front-end frameworks that set them apart and drive their popularity? With so many frameworks out there, what motivates their diversity? Also, for both large and small-scale projects, is it viable to forego front-end frameworks and rely solely on HTML, JS, and CSS? As a junior web dev, I'm curious because I haven't encountered scenarios where front-end frameworks were a clear necessity, but I'm open to insights from the experienced HN community!

I do understand the benefit of secure connection which makes requests encrypted between the user and the server but why do we usually have https for websites that doesn't contain any signing up or transferring sensitive info, just normal html.

for instance, this website http://three-eyed-games.com/2018/05/03/gpu-ray-tracing-in-unity-part-1/ does it need to implement ssl certificate?