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You cannot really compare a React project with a non-React project if it is done by different people.

We use React since four months, and we develop faster compared to before, when we used only jQuery.

Was that because you now structure you code in a better way, or was it because of React's functionality? And what aspect of the functionality was the most productive? The templating system? Did you used to hand-code your HTML in jQuery, or did you use templates in the HTML document?

(Genuine questions, not making a point).

A bit of both. With React we now have a much nicer code structure, because it forces us to think in components. We have a JS file and an SCSS file for each component. Before we rendered the view on the server side with Python/Jinja2.

I think there are many reasons for the productivity boost. Thinking in components, more readable code, great debugging possibilities, understandable data flow, to name a few.

And, last but not least, it is lots of fun :-).

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