Just want to highlight something from my original post: > react is the only way this new crop of devs knows how to do DOM stuff with server side effects DOM s

Just want to highlight something from my original post: > react is the only way this new crop of devs knows how to do DOM stuff with server side effects DOM stuff with server side effects, they think they need react to do dynamic DOM stuff, especially if that dynamic DOM stuff affects server side state. So this isn't just about AJAX