React abstracts away the stuff that usually makes JS complicated, like DOM manipulation, or dealing with observables. What you're left with is view components t

React abstracts away the stuff that usually makes JS complicated, like DOM manipulation, or dealing with observables. What you're left with is view components that you can just stick a regular JSON tree into. For instance, updating state is something that you don't really need to do in React. Just update your JSON tree, and your interface will match. And JS is really good at monkeying around with JSON. There is some stuff like routers etc. that you might not want to write yourself. Luckily there is a universe of components you can choose from, instead of one that some guy at google thought was good.