I'm an ancient web developer who would build entire web apps in django. I've tried creating forms with react, but it took 10 times longer to build it in react than it would have in django, maybe i'm just new to react, but i don't see how it would be faster even with more experience.

In django i would just create a model, a form class and a template and that would handle the rendering of the form, form validation, and saving the data into a db. But with react you would have to create the components and also create a separate api that would handle the retrival and saving of data.

Are there any ancient developers out there building web apps faster with react/vuejs/angular than django/rails?