[mangeletti]

Thanks for the advice.

I've been wanting to learn React for a while, but each time I start, I'm put off by the complexity it adds (compared to e.g., jQuery + vanilla JS). I soon will just jump in and learn to swim.

BTW, do folks use React for server-side apps as well? If so, is that common?

Also, I almost ROFL at the "axes might be logarithmic" in that graph's legend!

[a13n]

Sure thing!

You can definitely render your React code on the server and (distrubutedly + carefully) cache the result to make your initial page load blazingly fast. IMO it's more of an optimization though.

I don't personally use this feature since client-side rendered has been plenty fast enough for me so far.

Learning React is IMO one of the most impactful things I've ever done to be able to effectively build products, couldn't recommend it more!

[xufi]

Thanks for the detailed opinion. I'm just trying to relearn Jquery/Vanila JS myself and want to jump to react and a few other libraries. Seems like I shouldnt be that afraid