> It’s a web-based graphics editor Yeah, for something like that you are going to need a lot of libraries and infrastructure to pull it off as a side project w

> It’s a web-based graphics editor Yeah, for something like that you are going to need a lot of libraries and infrastructure to pull it off as a side project without heroic effort, so it makes sense to go with the most mature framework available. Reasonable people aren't unqualified in their criticism of React. There are times and places for it, and this sounds like one of them. It is the over-use of React (and other SPA frameworks) that most reasonable people are criticizing. The headline, a take on "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" is interesting in it's own way, because that's the sentiment that leads to React being chosen for projects for which it is not appropriate.