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Reinventing wheels, probably.

not op, but i'm presently working on a project with a simple old school “no clientside deps, complex logic goes on the server” requirement, and i don't actually feel like i'm doing anything much different than when i work on react.

the project is pretty simple, and modern js is significantly improved, so the notion that you have to reinvent the wheel seems false.

If you don't find yourself reinventing wheels then you made the right call -- your project didn't need a framework to begin with.

And even if you do find yourself reinventing wheels... well, if nobody reinvented wheels we'd be driving cars with wooden wagon wheels instead of pneumatic tires ;)

And it's not like React, Angular, etc. development isn't "reinventing wheels", too. Different sets of wheels, maybe, but there's still a lot of repetition and doing the same thing over again.

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