While I'm not an old dog myself, rather a puppy. I share your sentiment. SPAs or over-jsed pages are problematic for many reasons. At the moment this is my lis

While I'm not an old dog myself, rather a puppy. I share your sentiment. SPAs or over-jsed pages are problematic for many reasons. At the moment this is my list when coding frontend on my own projects: 1. The less js the better. 2. If you can solve a problem in a few lines of native js, go for it! 3. Some complex "component"? Use React, it will save you a headache. Why like this? 1. A lot can be done without js. Solutions are many times simpler and easier to modify. 2. A lot of components, like models and so on can be done in a few lines of javascript. 3. I think React isn't bad per se, many times it's a cleaner solution over native js when it comes to complex components, which can be required by designers, shrug.