It really isn't. Teaching newbies to venerate JSX and React is far more harmful in my opinion: it does a really good job of hiding what's actually going on. Th

It really isn't. Teaching newbies to venerate JSX and React is far more harmful in my opinion: it does a really good job of hiding what's actually going on. These days vanilla JS DOM APIs are pretty straightforward. It's well worth learning them and using them on small projects where a library like React is absurd overkill.