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>React is great, mostly for bigger web apps that do need a framework and more structure, such as an SPA with multiple team members working on it. I'd argue thi
by chmln 8y ago
>React is great, mostly for bigger web apps that do need a framework and more structure, such as an SPA with multiple team members working on it.
I'd argue this is bad advice. What constitutes a 'bigger' project us arbitrary, and once you build your whole app on jQuery it's expensive to migrate to React once you get just a bit 'bigger'.
Now whether or not all websites need to be React-based SPAs is a different question entirely.
- jypepin 8y agoyeah you are right about the cost of migrating, I've been through one and it's indeed to be avoided. I badly used "bigger". What I meant was more in the lines of React is great to build what we could call web apps - something with complex logic, etc. While jQuery is better for simple DOM manipulation. Maybe a good line is, as soon as you find yourself manipulating data you might want to think about using a framework such as React.