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Maybe development requires more overhead, but you have to factor in reading understanding and maintenance. React, with a proper state management library like React, in my humble limited opinion, is easy to understand because of its functional nature. The view rendering is a function of the props it receives, whether it come from a context based store like Redux or just passed thru. I don’t find reading other peoples React code terribly difficult because most of it is not surprising. Even components which make heavy use or internal state are never so terribly difficult to understand.

I don’t think the same could be said of your random JQuery or. Backbon based project