[mikebelanger]

The nice thing about the plain "vanilla" approach is it can be used to enhance a more traditional SSR-rendered site. And it doesn't need a complete rewrite in React or whatever.

The author of this article blog is describing some more advanced SPA-like scenarios, but those are completely optional

[zelphirkalt]

React aficionados will disagree though, and tell you to move your logic into the React framework using code.