> And have you seen the markup generated by React and its ilk?
I completely agree with your point that most sites could easily just be static HTML and we would all be better for it, but React does not generate any markup beyond what the developer instructs it to.
A lot of the hate modern JS frameworks get is actually the result of so many web developers having poor HTML skills (and, if I’m being honest, poor development skills all round). Nothing inherent to any JS framework is responsible for div soup.
You can construct clean semantic HTML from React just as easily as you can hand-write crappy HTML directly into a file on a server.
I completely agree with your point that most sites could easily just be static HTML and we would all be better for it, but React does not generate any markup beyond what the developer instructs it to.
A lot of the hate modern JS frameworks get is actually the result of so many web developers having poor HTML skills (and, if I’m being honest, poor development skills all round). Nothing inherent to any JS framework is responsible for div soup.
You can construct clean semantic HTML from React just as easily as you can hand-write crappy HTML directly into a file on a server.