[pas]

React is a great component-based (functionally pure-ish? puritan!) view library, but when all you have is a render() function things start to look like components even if they looked like something else before.

And then, of course, a whole cottage industry sprung up around it, from create-react-app to hideous HOC form managers. It soon started to became a proper cult, attracting true believers who shunned types, who got burnt by just a bit too much webpack configuration craziness, and then VC money pured in and ...

And now the king is dead, long live the king. All hail HTMX!

[jakjak123]

Conflating React with webpack is disingenuous at best.