Comment by simonw
21 hours ago
> For example, writing more vanilla JS instead of React, you're just reinventing the necessary abstractions more verbosely and with a higher risk of duplicate code or mismatching abstractions.
Right, but I'm also getting pages that load faster and don't require a build step, making them more convenient to hack on. I'm enjoying that trade-off a lot.
Vanilla JS is also a lot more capable than it was when React was invented.
And yeah, you can't beat the iteration speed.
I feel like there are dozens of us.