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by SulfurHexaFluri 2044 days ago
React/vue/etc are not massive libraries. The problem usually comes from websites loading 5 versions of jquery and then 30 ad network scripts.

And yes, doing anything mildly responsive with jquery is too hard. And not in the "I don't know how to do this" way. Its just a huge waste of time. What takes 100 lines of jquery code can be done for free with jsx. Usually jquery sites settle for sub optimal UX because its too hard to do the things react sites do.

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Yes, what I was alluding too was that new tooling tends to make it easier for client resources to explode out of control.

Don't get me wrong, jsx is great. but it should be used in the right place.