[meander_water]

As someone who has built both react based frontends and html based ones (with htmx), there is a law of diminishing returns at play.

To start off, writing a basic crud website with forms is much easier with htmx.

But when you start building more complex components, and integrate with other systems (OAuth for e.g.) there are tons of libraries and SDKs for the react ecosystem, but not many for pure html components.

At this point, it's much easier to use off the shelf components than it is to manually write html to handle all the bizarre UI edge cases.

[meander_water]

Really curious to understand why I'm being downvoted. I don't think it's a particularly spicy take - Just choose the right tool for the job.

[yurishimo]

I think a lot of people here don't seem to understand or appreciate the diversity of systems that "web developers" have to work in.

Some people might say, "Why do you need all that oAuth complexity? Rip it out and use a cookie like God intended."

We, the devs/ICs, don't often get to make those decisions. We're placed into teams working on specific features/apps/tools and we often have to integrate with a myriad of business systems by default.

Yea, I would love to work on a simpler system, but I don't get to make that decision. Especially not when my company has been acquired by unbounded VC cash three times in the past 5 years and now I'm forced to fold in my lovingly crafted baby into the behemoth.