It's funny, I've been a web developer for many, many years and I've yet to see any compelling argument for why React (or similar libraries) should even exist.
Every single time I look into them I just can't find a reason why I'd ever want to use them over regular HTML and JavaScript. This is especially true in recent years when so many convenience functions have been added to the languages which you'd only previously find in the likes of jQuery etc.
I've looked at framework comparison sites like ToDoMVC.com and the React code just looks so disgustingly over-engineered.
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It's funny, I've been a web developer for many, many years and I've yet to see any compelling argument for why React (or similar libraries) should even exist.
Every single time I look into them I just can't find a reason why I'd ever want to use them over regular HTML and JavaScript. This is especially true in recent years when so many convenience functions have been added to the languages which you'd only previously find in the likes of jQuery etc.
I've looked at framework comparison sites like ToDoMVC.com and the React code just looks so disgustingly over-engineered.
I just don't get it at all.