I totally agree with you. I think this guy states it pretty well when it comes to React vs. VanillaJS. There is no doubt that React.js is a great approach towa

I totally agree with you. I think this guy states it pretty well when it comes to React vs. VanillaJS. There is no doubt that React.js is a great approach towards managing state in the view layer of a browser application. However, from my own limited experience as well as just comparing raw numbers from time spent in rendering to the amount of memory consumed, there is a clear price to pay in any convenience gained from a library like React. From a pure performance perspective it does appear there may be some merit in evaluating a pure JS DOM approach to a given problem. However, from the perspective of managing a team of developers who want to deliver a large amount of maintainable code, there can be a clear advantage to leveraging libraries and frameworks such as React, Polymer, Angular, etc. https://objectpartners.com/2015/11/19/comparing-react-js-performance-vs-native-dom/ https://objectpartners.com/2015/11/19/comparing-react-js-per...