Ant Design – the second most popular React UI framework

But if you need interactivity, on the web it has to be JS, because that's the only thing that can manipulate the DOM. (Edit: To be clear, there are frameworks that COMPILE to JS, so you the programmer don't have to work in JS yourself.) The alternative would be something like a server-updated Canvas where the UI is done outside of the DOM and not in the client, but even that would need some JS shims just to communicate and redraw the Canvas.

If you want to render the entire page serverside and handle all interactions via clicks and HTTP POSTs and such, you still can, of course. That would just be slower for the visitor.

Probably a "JS-lite" approach like HTMX + Alpine would be worth considering?

If you start at the bottom, with the actual component (https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design/blob/master/compone...), the logic is much clearer. Most of the other consts are just definitions that you pass to the component (see documentation at https://ant.design/components/table#table).

And for the long list of imports and such, any modern IDE can parse those for you and easily jump to the source or the type defs.

If you're complaining about how this looks vs traditional OOP code, etc., that's just a stylistic choice Meta made for React codebases a few years back. It actually does make components pretty easy to maintain over the long term because all the core logic is just in one long, flat file. Lots of vertical scrolling, but predictable outcomes and easily refactored chunks. But third parties typically just have to mimic that style. That's not on Ant, that's just how JS code is currently in fashion...

Development could be a little clunky with some things difficult to customize, although I think that's gotten somewhat better. I also remember a few things having Chinese documentation but missing some English translations. Haven't used it for a few years so not sure if that has been more filled in or if there are more English speaking maintainers involved now.

Still think it looks nice visually overall.