[joshghent]

The author raises some interesting points.

But these arguments seem a little tired now. Does a customer actually care what technology you use - absolutely not. If react is easier for you, go for it. If that’s HTMX - fine.

What matters is speed of delivery of new features. And react has huge amounts of support (and a large developer base) that makes development quick and cheap.

I’ve never understood these html purist arguments. As if React/Vue/Angular are desecrating this pure text language.

There are other issues of far greater importance - accessibility, multi-language, browser consistency, sane defaults and easy tooling.

[alethiophile]

The customer probably cares if your app takes five seconds to load because of the resource size, or reliably pegs a CPU core whenever you're using it.

Of course, neither of these things are guaranteed in a React app. But they're definitely way easier to back into by accident.