> Plain Javascript is just fine, especially with the improvements of ES6. With React pushing hard to use JSX and discontinuing the in-browser JSX-to-JS transfo

> Plain Javascript is just fine, especially with the improvements of ES6. With React pushing hard to use JSX and discontinuing the in-browser JSX-to-JS transformation step, this is no longer completely true. You have to introduce the tooling from the start. (Yes, technologically you are not forced to use JSX and can use JS, but this is clearly declared as unwanted in the React ecosystem.)