The benefits of React (such as its templating syntax) can be had with much simpler libraries, such as this one: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder https://

The benefits of React (such as its templating syntax) can be had with much simpler libraries, such as this one: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder The much touted benefit of React, DOM diffing, is useful if you have a very complex screen and you need to make surgical updates. Most applications have simple screens that can be completely re-rendered and the user won't know the difference.