[mod]

As someone who has worked on a truly large React project, I can assure you this is not true.

I cannot imagine the shitshow that project would be using jQuery to track the state.

Nearly as soon as you progress from 'backend rendering html' to single-page-app, it behooves you to use React.

[rocky1138]

What's the major advantage of moving from "backend rendering html" to single-page-app?

[mod]

There are trade-offs. In very broad terms, single-page-apps are better for something that behaves more like an application (has a lot of user interaction or real-time behavior) than something that behaves more like a website (a page is loaded and the user views that now-static page for a period of time).

I try to fit the more traditional paradigm when I'm allowed to architect an app myself. I like rendering a page on the backend.

Anyway, you can read arguments by smarter people than myself: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21862054/single-page-appl...

That's just one thread of many.

[flukus]

> As someone who has worked on a truly large React project, I can assure you this is not true.

Worked on or maintained an existing app for a number of years? There is a very big difference.