The article's author does not seem to understand what React is for and why people use it.
The article is full of sentences like: it's true React is fast, but basic Javascript is even faster. Duh? It's true React is quite small, but if you don't use it, your site will be even smaller. No sh*t Sherlock?
React was invented to simplify the program structure of medium-to-large applications by replicating the successful data flow of the Web itself: namely, the state of the application is in one place only (the URL in the Web, the state object in React); HTML is generated from that state using one set of reusable and composable templates; and crucially, user events only affect the state, not the HTML itself.
Personally, I'm going back to basic HTML + progressive enhancement, for a variety of reasons. But React is the sanest of all the client-side architectures I've seen so far, including bare-bones web api.
The article is full of sentences like: it's true React is fast, but basic Javascript is even faster. Duh? It's true React is quite small, but if you don't use it, your site will be even smaller. No sh*t Sherlock?
React was invented to simplify the program structure of medium-to-large applications by replicating the successful data flow of the Web itself: namely, the state of the application is in one place only (the URL in the Web, the state object in React); HTML is generated from that state using one set of reusable and composable templates; and crucially, user events only affect the state, not the HTML itself.
Personally, I'm going back to basic HTML + progressive enhancement, for a variety of reasons. But React is the sanest of all the client-side architectures I've seen so far, including bare-bones web api.