I've seen many, many projects where React has been used and it simply wasn't necessary - simple forms with a couple of buttons/controls, or simple websites with minimal functionality. The same thing could have been achieved with a mere fraction of the code using plain old vanilla JS.
This seems to be getting more and more prevalent these days. People are starting off with React and assuming it is the best way to do everything - it isn't.
Horses for courses - sure, it's the right tool for some projects, but in many cases it is simply overkill - over-engineering through ignorance
Aside from pages where plain javascript is enough I would argue that vue.js in many cases would be an easier replacement for a jQuery app. No need for webpack, build chain and so on - just include it like jQuery and be able to use a modern (what ever that means) framework.
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Yep, I've seen people build blogs with server-side rendered React, that had no special JS effects or controls to warrant it, they made a full circle lol. They could have done the same with a couple of lines of PHP. Complexity for the sake of it! :D
I've seen many, many projects where React has been used and it simply wasn't necessary - simple forms with a couple of buttons/controls, or simple websites with minimal functionality. The same thing could have been achieved with a mere fraction of the code using plain old vanilla JS.
This seems to be getting more and more prevalent these days. People are starting off with React and assuming it is the best way to do everything - it isn't.
Horses for courses - sure, it's the right tool for some projects, but in many cases it is simply overkill - over-engineering through ignorance
Aside from pages where plain javascript is enough I would argue that vue.js in many cases would be an easier replacement for a jQuery app. No need for webpack, build chain and so on - just include it like jQuery and be able to use a modern (what ever that means) framework.
Yup. Riot.js is also a great option
Yep, I've seen people build blogs with server-side rendered React, that had no special JS effects or controls to warrant it, they made a full circle lol. They could have done the same with a couple of lines of PHP. Complexity for the sake of it! :D
Next thing, you're going to say you don't use React to generate static pages. -_-