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Manuele J Sarfatti • Edited

I use React whenever I can, but at times it just makes no sense.
I tried to insist on going jQuery free/vanillaJS on a recent project but my team rebelled against me ๐Ÿ˜…

And to be honest I couldn't defend my position that much. jQuery makes writing small interactive features sooooo much faster than vanilla. Fact.

Anyway, I recently found out you can actually have multiple React roots, so next time I have to work on a regular website I'm going to go that way (as opposed to jquery-pluginify all the things).

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At a point I even built my own blazing-fast DOM abstraction/selector: github.com/mjsarfatti/dusk โ€“ but never really used it much.