I also started out without frameworks and still prefer to work that way. However, I have found them to come in handy when solo-ing projects that require: - tra

I also started out without frameworks and still prefer to work that way. However, I have found them to come in handy when solo-ing projects that require: - transpiling JS back into the stone age for compatibility - accessibility - seamless localisation I have found I just can't keep track of all of these things as well as React does. At the same time, I think React is a huge, dependency-laden mess, very difficult to learn (because it's changed its mind on how to do things about 100x, so no responses to issues on SO apply to your version of React, Redux, React Router, etc), slow as hell and probably overkill for most projects...