> Have you ever worked with just raw js? Yes > Anything more than a todo list becomes unwieldy almost instantly. That's not a fact, just your personal exper

> Have you ever worked with just raw js? Yes > Anything more than a todo list becomes unwieldy almost instantly. That's not a fact, just your personal experience > Taking a small dependency to avoid that is well worth it. Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes, no. > Taking a whole “virtual dom” may be overkill though (looking at you, react) In most cases, probably yeah. React was created to solve a specific problem a specific company experienced, then the community took that solution and tried to put it everywhere. Results are bound to be "not optimal".