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I get the impression that the author is so into the react way of doing things that they can't seem to comprehend and write JS in a non-react (vanilla) way, thus polluting the author's approach to writing vanilla JS.

If anything, this article is an example of how you need to write and truly understand vanilla JS (and learn form your mistakes) before you can appreciate and understand what react had to offer when it first came out.

I might have to write a counter blog post just to balance this out...SMH.