I generally don’t like react, and even when it came out I thought it was overly complicated. It’s also massively overused I think. Sometimes I see the popularit

I generally don’t like react, and even when it came out I thought it was overly complicated. It’s also massively overused I think. Sometimes I see the popularity and think I’m taking crazy pills. I’ve recently been doing a lot of react work. Even relatively simple changes on pages that are just pretty basic forms that probably shouldn’t have ever been a react page in the first place are huge changes. Even ignoring updates to the backend, adding a basic fields to a form with some validation can be 20+ files changed. This week I updated a rails Erb file with jquery, wow it took 1/10th the time, file changes and energy. Really the golden age of web technology. React probably has a place if you’re making a single page application at the scale of Facebook, but otherwise I don’t see it.