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I selected React & Next.JS for our templating framework to use with an API driven website. There are hardly any SPA features incorporated into the website, though we set that as a possible down the road feature.

For me, the biggest reason to use React & Next.JS over any other template language was how enjoyable the JavaScript ecosystem is to work with once setup. React just happens to be the modern day JQuery & is leading the pack. I also prefer its XML/JSX type syntax.

The ability for us to write code that would work on the SSR portion & front end was also a big plus.

Also Storybook isn't a React only thing, but it is a JS thing. Allowing our designers to create components with mock API calls & having Webpack update the component (without reloading) on save is an amazing time saver & productivity gain. I know of no other language that has a component template system that is close to JavaScript, Storybook & Webpack. As WASM matures, I hope to see other languages match it.