Your code, your choice :-)

Yes indeed - and the purpose of the post is to help me make that choice :)

Currently I'm unsure what help a framework would actually provide as, surely, all the boilerplate HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc still has to do coded by hand. I totally get that a framework helps with compatibility with other developers.

I'm very much thinking that I'll try a framework for this project and then I will be able to form an informed opinion...