Frameworks aren't specific to Javascript. Almost every mainstream language I know of has a framework of some sort - If you're using a language on its own then I guarantee you'll end up writing (and testing/maintaining) similar code to everyone else. After a few years, you'll have built up a "utilities library" that you copy from project to project. This will need maintaining, and new starters will also have to learn your library.
I'm not sure they are immediately comparable, the level of change in the JS side has been massive.
I'm also not sure the utilities libraries will be copied from project to project, for example if you developed a utility library and were using Ember its quite likely the Ember abstractions would have impacted the library design. If you then move to say React..
