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by what 201 days ago
Why does this site even use react?
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Why not? With that kind of overhead from the assets an extra 200kb of JS is only going to make a minute difference in terms of load speed. It uses a lot of animation stuff that is provided by React libraries (Framer Motion, WebGL normal-based relighting, ThreeJS particles) that would need to be done separately otherwise and the component structure helps keep it organised.