"That’s a lot of code to write for an auto-incrementing counter" In reality, you will never need to write an auto-incrementing counter :) React gives you a men

"That’s a lot of code to write for an auto-incrementing counter" In reality, you will never need to write an auto-incrementing counter :) React gives you a mental framework, you draw a page based on the state in a declarative way. The clever abstraction you make, the less you write the code, so it's a little bit pointless to compare it with an auto-incrementing counter application, in reality has no use case at all.