[thex10]

> React is still a good tool for writing MPAs, if you can get your team to stick to it. But unfortunately, if you aren't careful, React has become an infectious disease and slowly eats your whole frontend, even where it's not necessary and in fact, counterproductive. Pages which initially had a component or two, slowly are completely rendered in React, and when this happens to enough pages, someone starts wondering why your site isn't an SPA.

This started happening to me this year. And all the other senior devs who know better happen to be gone from this project, so I'm alone having to convince these junior engineers (working on a very large non-JS-backend web application mostly with content pages!) that SPAs are not the ultimate solution to all. It's so frustrating.