I'm surprised this incredibly low effort post has garnered this many votes on HN. The fact that React is "just javascript" itself, notwithstanding, the author s

I'm surprised this incredibly low effort post has garnered this many votes on HN. The fact that React is "just javascript" itself, notwithstanding, the author seems to conflate the needs he's had when building websites with needs that folks encounter when building web applications. Knowing javascript, html, and css, are wonderful and necessary skills to being proficient at web development, but discounting a framework like React and all the utilities it provides for common patterns and needs you encounter in building applications is akin to saying that you need not bother with things like .indexOf because, well, if you know javascript well enough, you could just implement it yourself!