Yeah same. I remember when I started messing around with web front-end, I wanted to do pure HTML/CSS/JS, but I found it doesn't really work on web since there'

Yeah same. I remember when I started messing around with web front-end, I wanted to do pure HTML/CSS/JS, but I found it doesn't really work on web since there's all these little browser fragmentation issues you have to contend with. So I added JQuery, which was fine, but you still had to build a lot on top once you start building something web-application like. I tried Angular when that came out, but that felt like it was a little too heavy and opinionated, sort of like a "rails for the front-end". Then finally React just seemed natural to work with. I could finally build fairly re-usable components, and you had the behavioral logic and state neatly packaged with the "view" definition. It seems like the first time someone had really nailed it with a structure for web front-end, and like that's the way it should have worked all the way along.