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by jorblumesea 3274 days ago
React is a view library and it does this very well. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles like Angular and it's plethora of helpers ($HTTP etc) or complex dependency injection.

I would argue it's the perfect candidate for this purpose. What does a news site need? Articles? Ads? Basic nav? Angular or Ember would be overkill. And with Redux, it's very easy to think about complex UI state.

My only complaint with React is how large it is given what it actually does. Loading 100kb of JS (not Gzipped) seems very heavy.

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You might like Preact: https://github.com/developit/preact

It's a 3kb React alternative with the same API.

Interesting, thank you