Recently there's a push to eliminate jQuery usage from our codebase, and it's highlighting just how much React doesn't do for you. jQuery, for all it's faults,

Recently there's a push to eliminate jQuery usage from our codebase, and it's highlighting just how much React doesn't do for you. jQuery, for all it's faults, has been maturing for 10 years or so. It makes a pretty good footgun, but it's not like I've never seen anyone shoot themselves in the foot with React either.