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> For example, writing more vanilla JS instead of React, you're just reinventing the necessary abstractions more verbosely and with a higher risk of duplicate code or mismatching abstractions.

Right, but I'm also getting pages that load faster and don't require a build step, making them more convenient to hack on. I'm enjoying that trade-off a lot.



Vanilla JS is also a lot more capable than it was when React was invented.

And yeah, you can't beat the iteration speed.

I feel like there are dozens of us.


Same with the latest CSS removing need for JS in many use cases in HTML.




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